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My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Barcelona
Mother Father Parents
Parents
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When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
Loudon Wainwright Iii / Singer-Songwriter
Big Deal
Died
Father
Giants
Mother
Parent
Titans
Mother Father Parents
Father Parents Mother
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My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
Susan Lucci / Actress
Backgrounds
Descent
Different Backgrounds
Father
Italian
Mother
Swedish
Mother Father Parents
Father Parents Mother
Extremely
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My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Backgrounds
Different Backgrounds
Disapproval
Father
Mother
Parent
Mother Father Parents
Father Parents Mother
Grander
Relations
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
Yaya Dacosta / Actress
Active
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Coordinating
Father
Mother
Rights
Secretary
Mother Father Parents
Worker
Civil
Father Parents Mother
Committee
Student
Nonviolent
Rights Movement
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My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
Paul Nurse /
County
Father
Mother
Norfolk
Years
Mother Father Parents
Chauffeur
Cook
Early Years
Houses
Rural
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
Patricia Polacco / Author
Dad
Divorced
Mother
Moved
School
Three
Mother Father Parents
Year
Homes
Parents
Spent
Summers
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
Iman /
Born
Country
East
Mother
Poor
Somalia
Unheard
Mother Father Parents
Africa
Parents
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No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class. My father, when my sister and I were younger, he was a parking attendant at the old Dunes Hotel and Casino. My mother was a bookkeeper in a title company.
Catherine Cortez Masto / Former Nevada Attorney General
Hardworking
Hotel
Middle Class
No Doubt
Parking
Mother Father Parents
Attendant
Casino
Title
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Baba Seva - Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman - was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant at a textile factory, and her mother was a nurse. Her parents moved to Moscow with her and her brothers when she was a child.
Keith Gessen / Novelist
Moscow
Nurse
Small Town
Ukraine
Mother Father Parents
Accountant
Factory
Textile
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
Chinua Achebe / Novelist
Teacher
Christianity
Mother
Nigeria
Religious
Traveled
Mother Father Parents
Gospel
Converts
Different Parts
Evangelist
Spreading
Thirty-Five
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My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.
Celeste Ng / Writer
America
Century
Immigrants
Indiana
Late
Mother
Typical
Mother Father Parents
Studied
Had
Ancestors
Came
Him
Parents
Over
Joined
Worked
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I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
Stacey Abrams /
Balance
College
Grew
Librarian
Mother
Roof
Six
Mother Father Parents
Deep South
Saw
Heads
Parents
Worked
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My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
George J. Mitchell / Former United States Senator
Birth
Boston
Died
Father
Immigrants
Ireland
Mother
Orphanage
Sibling
Son
Mother Father Parents
Placed
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My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve Jobs / Entrepreneur
Adoption
College
Father
Found
High School
Months
Mother
Papers
School
Someday
Mother Father Parents
Had
Biological
High
Few
Final
Graduated
Would
Parents
Later
Promised
Refused
She
Sign
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