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-He's a physician I've known for many years. Just a true professional, class-act. You don't ever feel that sentiment he thinks he is better than you, like some doctors/nurses/medical professionals do, just because they have a title.
Paul Pierce
-I've been watching basketball since I was about 8 years old way back in 1992. Of course, at that time, I only knew Michael Jordan and followed the Bulls vaguely because it was the only thing I really knew about the game. Got older, the Celtics drafted Pierce in the summer of 1998, I'm about to enter the 9th grade. Watched his first regular season game versus Toronto, scored 19 points if remember correctly. Just loved his game. He got me following the home-team and keeping up with the overall game on a more in depth basis ever since.
Eazy-E
-You can laugh. But I like his music...certainly can't relate to the aspect of it that involves killing people, but in terms of struggling, being poor, having to come from the lower class to make something of yourself... Yes, I can certainly relate there. Went to college, got a degree, hopefully starting grad school in the fall. It's a good feeling.
Gerald McOsker
-Professor I had during my undergrad at Salve Regina University when I had transferred from college up in NH. Felt like I totally didn't fit in down there in Newport when I got there. Just the way many students were, being preppy/snooty to a degree, the way things were, he totally could tell what I was going through & helped me get through that adjustment period.
That's really everyone I can think of. I'd say my dad, but he wasn't really the world's best father. Didn't really have a lot of direct family male role-models in my life...grew up in a house with a mom and 3 older sisters. Guess my male role-models are a shortlist of people I've met along the way and also have seen on TV.