My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
I like stories that affect families.
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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