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My life's journey begun approximately September 27th 1972. Many experiences to follow.
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I was in the germinal period at this point. I was just a zygote and blastocyst.
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I'm not quite human looking yet, but I've started to develop my eyes, heart, and digestive system.
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I go through processes such as sexual assignment, head development, digestive system completion, fingernail growth, and hair growth.
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Was this purely genetic, or an interplay of heredity and environment?
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I am a boy! So my father's sperm was a "Y".
I was about 7 pounds at birth. -
My Birthday
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Sensorimotor stage - lots of involuntary movements and crying!
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100 - 2,000 word vocabulary.
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At some point in my infancy, I faced Erickson's trust versus mistrust conflict.
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Responding to familiar people. I take comfort from my mom and dad and sister.
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At about 4 months, baby's grasp.
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This is the period we call the terrible two's.
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I greet my primary caregiver - mom! I get sad and anxious when my mom leaves.
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I started walking about this point.
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Lots of drawings of home and mom and dad and sis.
Learning the alphabet, and arithmetic. -
Hide and seek. Parental reassurance sought.
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1,000 to 5,000 words.
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Vocabulary 3,000 to 10,000 words.
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5,000 to 20,000 words
Sentence Length - never ending with conjunctions! -
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1st Grade through part of 4th Grade
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I learned how to ride a bike at around 5 or 6 years old. No helmets back then.
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Seeking to make parents proud. Trying to accomplish things and receive praise from parents.
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I saw this movie in the theatre. It immediately impacted my myth making about the world.
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MASH the tv show ends. My dad, sister, and I watched this show regularly together.
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Exploring friendships and relationships using my parents as relationship model.
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The beginning of an adult mind begins about this age.
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I got to see this movie with a bunch of friends for my 13th birthday.
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High School at Brother Rice
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My aunt called the house and I answered and she asked to speak with my dad. I remember afterwards thinking "Aunt Linda sounded funny."
My uncle Joe had died suddenly of a heart attack.
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Development of romantic relationships and adult relationships.
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Lived In San Francisco, California
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Depaul University
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Lived with my friends and fellow students Xiao Yu Zhang and Sha Duan. They are a married couple from the Hunan Province of China.
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Baby Girl due at the end of February 2014.
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We take our 6 year-old girl to Greece to experience other cultures and the history of western civilization.
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Mom and Dad move into a beautiful assisted living community.
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Simultaneous for my wife and I!
Beach, here we come! -
My daughter, Karsen Karle, is happily married to a person that she loves.
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My daughter, Karsen, has her first baby, a boy! I achieve the great stature of grandfather-hood.
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My parents pass away together, asleep at night.
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I'm hoping that I'll live to the ripe old age of 120! I hope that medical advancement, exercise, and a good diet will help me reach that age.
I hope that I pass away peacefully in the presence of my wife and family, remembering a life rich in laughter, happiness, contentment, health, and moderate wealth shared generously.