My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.
I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.
My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
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