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Kiri Te Kanawa
Beloved Opera Singer
The reasons that I'm here today is because of the sacrifices of my parents. And I know how much they sacrificed. My father was a very hard worker. He didn't know what was happening to me. My mother didn't really know what was happening to me. But they sacrificed. And I can't tell you how much, because it would go into years and years of what they did do for me. And I look at my children, and I say to them, "You're here because of my father and my mother. Not because of me." I did it. And I said to my son the other day, "I can't actually thank my parents enough because of what they did." And it really, really was. It was huge. They've given me this amazing life, and then I can't even thank them. So all I can do is help. And I think in lots of ways -- with young students, and I'm working with them right now here at the Met -- that is, I suppose, my little bit of payback, if you know what I mean.
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