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...think my parents are disappointed because they love Billy and they wanted us to get married,” Shutzer jokes. “Every mom Billy has ever encountered is disappointed he’s not marrying their kid—he’s such a mom-pleaser...
...Maybe their journey seemed more natural to me than to others because it was so parallel to mine,” the father says. “I wanted to marry Billy’s mom the first week I met her, so as the next step in their relationship it seemed perfectly right...
That's how alien Michael (Quinton Aaron) appears to most of the students and faculty at Wingate Christian School. The abandoned son of a crack-addict mom (his father vanished and was murdered years later), he's the kind of kid for whom a written test looks like a scrawl in hieroglyphics, as foreign to him as a quick pass to the wideout might be to a more studious child. It asks him to strain muscles he has never been encouraged to use. His teachers dismiss him as stupid, illiterate, unteachable; his classmates shy away from him; and the ladies...
Kudos and thank you from a mom who has let her children bike to the convenience store, walk along a country road to find a lost phone, figure out public transit to a city high school and study and volunteer abroad. I'm still not ready to hear what they did when we weren't looking ... but I do know there are no perfect kids or perfect parents. Every day you say a little prayer...
...always talk about having this blue-collar type of work ethic, which doesn’t necessarily mean that your mom or dad was a carpenter or a plumber,” Murphy says. “But it’s realizing that you need a great work ethic to succeed at Harvard, on and off the field...