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My mother and father have been happily married for over twenty-five years, and are both active influences in my brothers and sister lives. They both raised us, but they both had different, but some similar roles when it came to trying us to teach us.
Some things that our parents are have tried to teach us have been to be affectionate towards others and to ourselves and, to always be wary of the friends we make, and to always try our hardest to accomplish our goals, but the way they went about it was a lot different.
Being affectionate towards others, and to ourselves is something that our parents tried to instill in there children. My mother always pressed it on us a little harder then my father did. She seemed to have a problem with us beating ourselves up if we failed at an attempted goal, so she tried to explain to us that it's ok to not always be the best at everything we do, and that other people won't always be good at the things that they do as well, and that we should......

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