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...Though supportive of their daughter's commitment to dance, Weiss's parents were unnerved by the prospect of her not going to college. "They were very, very proud, but they certainly were not pushing me! I mean, my mom went to Yale and my dad went to Cornell. I think they always knew [my desire to go pro] was looming, and then it became very clear that this was what I was going to do, for at least a couple of years...
...night shift at the baking company where he works, often logging more than 60 hours a week, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Their mismatched schedules allow only brief day-to-day interactions. A cup of coffee over a rushed breakfast as my mom struggles to ready three little girls for school and my dad struggles to stay awake long enough to drive us there. A phone call home during my mom's lunch break to make sure someone remembers to pay that month's gas bill...
...kissed my mother was a good day - one of my dad's best. I was home for spring break, spending my days alongside my mom at the downtown Chicago rehabilitative institute where my father has now been moved. His physical therapy session had just begun, and his therapist was busily testing the strength in his arms and neck, checking to see whether my father - a six-foot, three-inch-tall man who once weighed as much as a linebacker - could do something as simple as keep his back and neck in an upright, seated position. It was a test...
...that the dot bombs and other tech dears descended into a panicky free fall, no one with a sizable stake could help fretting that the bubble had burst. At the lows, the decline was in some ways worse than the 1987 crash. Yes. The Crash. Doesn't register? Think. Mom or Dad may have mentioned...
...Teenagers: "There are thousands of choices out there, so focusing on just one is really tunnel vision." One of her favorites, Campus Kids, operates two sleep-away camps in New Jersey and Connecticut from Monday to Friday, so campers can spend weekends at home. It sounded perfect for a mom with separation anxiety, but they had a waiting list for 10-year-old girls...