People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.
... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.
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