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I never wanted to disappoint my family at all.

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.