Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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um. And, so I think that is a huge-huge diff erence, the 
impact of having that opportunity was just tremendous. 
Um, and I was, I think I’m a product of that sort of fi rst 
generation that had, like, access to sports teams from 
the very beginning. So when I started, like, when I was 
really young—in kindergarten—it was gymnastics, and 
that was still the most common sports outlet for young 
girls. But quickly, the soccer sort of—you know, basket-
ball, volleyball—that started to sort of 
trickle down
and 
they started introducing it like in fourth and fi fth grade, 
that happened right as I was getting to fourth and fi fth 
grade, and so I got, “Oh, well, I like gymnastics a lot, but 
I like volleyball a lot more,” you know, so, I-I mean, that’s, 
I think has made one of the biggest impacts on my life, in 
the course of my life.
3. WORKING MOMS
WOMAN:
We could actually compare his mother to my 
mother.
MAN:
Right, that’s better.
WOMAN:
Which is a really good comparison . . .
INTERVIEWER:
OK, OK.
WOMAN:
Because my mom was a single mom and had to 
raise three of us on her own limited income, um, and his 
mom was not, so your mom, 
[
so your mom 
]
. . . 
MAN:
My mom, my- my mom 
was fortunate enough that she could take time off of 
work when she had our, us—me and my brother—and 
raised us primarily while my-my father had started his 
own business and kept that going to help support the 

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