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[quote=Anonymous]My father wasn't super ambitious.  My mother's father was a very driven, successful, self-made man, and he was horrified that my mother married my father. In fact, he refused to attend the wedding.  My father went to a college that people on this forum would scoff at, and he did go on to have a perfectly "mediocre" career.  However, my father was a very kind man and a wonderful and loving dad, and we had a lovely, average middle class life.  We couldn't afford international travel or private schools, but we also never wanted for anything important.  When he died, the chapel was standing room only.  I had never realized how many lives he touched.

This country is full of people like this.  Washington attracts every ambitious student body president Ivy League lawyer in the country, and it gives you a false sense of what the average (what you would call "mediocre") person is like.  This is not Lake Wobegon.  Not every kid (even here) is going to be above average.  That doesn't mean that they aren't going to have a great life.  [/quote]

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