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To: laura_bush who wrote (23955)	7/31/2003 2:09:07 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 89467

No, it wasn't appealing to me- it appealed to my father. My father wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer, and I loved my dad. So I majored in biology, but by graduation I figured med school would kill my marriage (I married my first year in college, to another student) AND that I would hate the male dominated, hazing structure of residency (things may have changed a bit, but the weird way they train doctors in residence- working them to fatigue and past that- struck me as stupid, and not something I wanted to be a part of. I hate illogical situations.) So my dad asked (well, begged) me to take the LSAT- which I did. And since several first tier schools accepted me, and my father told me he would pay my tuition, I went to Berkeley. It made him so happy. I don't think he was ever happier then my last year of college, and my first semester of law school. My father had a heart attack during my first exams (he was in for open heart surgery during my torts exam) and died about a week after they were over. I'll never forget my torts teacher, who asked me why I hadn't done better than honors on my torts exam- and when I told him about my dad, he said "Don't make excuses." Yup. What a guy. I will never regret what I did, because I do think my dad died with a real feeling of accomplishment at my success (I'm sure he saw me and my career as a substitute for his own dreams). On the other hand, it deeply saddens me that my father never saw his grandchildren. But maybe there wouldn't have been grandchildren if he had lived- I probably would have stayed in law, so as not to disappoint him. Now you know my life's story :-) what's yours?