From Our Parents To Us

My
parents
always taught
us that if we
want something, then we
have to go and get it.
It will not come to us.  My
dad told us that he wants us to
be better than he and my mom.  Go
to college and be somebody in life.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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