RE: Sunday Reflection: Memories of January 26th...
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I'm glad my family has never been particularly obsessed with status, and I do know useful things like how to wash my own laundry and cook my own food, although that is in large part due to being the eldest sibling and being handed a few extra responsibilities while she dealt with the younger siblings and her own illness.
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I have come to increasingly value and be grateful for those early lessons in self reliance, they seem to have become more and more important as the years roll by. Although he died when I was 18, my dad could build and repair pretty much anything, and thankfully he passed along a good bit of knowledge to me before he passed.