My mom was a legal secretary and my dad was a statistician for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Nothing too exciting. My uncle, however, is a retired nuclear physicist who worked on top-secret government projects during the Cold War. At one point, he helped with the "Star Wars" missile defense project. And then he did resarch work in and around Silicon Valley, where several of his colleagues went on to win Nobel prizes. Yep.
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And while the seagulls are crying,
We fall but our souls are flying.