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He came to the United States when he was

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just a teenager with literally nothing,
right over the next few decades,

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he built like a really successful
life for himself and for my family.

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And so he was a lot of things, right.

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He was strict, but also really silly.

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And he was like a no-nonsense person,
but also very quirky.

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He loved to embarrass us in public.

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And just so he would
dance and sing just randomly in a very

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visible place where everyone--
everyone's eyes would turn to us.

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And we were all just like, oh my gosh.

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I remember also he would turn
napkins like at restaurants.

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He would turn the napkins into hats
and like, put it on his head and wait

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for the waiter to come back
and just say something funny.

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We were like, "Dad, stop, please.

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That's so embarrassing."

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But probably my favorite memory that I

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have with him was from my high school
graduation in 2013.

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I was giving a speech and I remember

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seeing him in the stands
recording me from his big iPad.

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So that looked funny.

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And then later that summer after I

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graduated one morning,
I heard him playing the video

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in the living room,
like when he thought I was asleep.

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And so I remember coming out of my room

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and he was just like, "Oh um, yeah, I just I
loved your video--your speech so much.

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I wanted to watch the video again."

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He just wanted to listen to my speech.