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    Quote Originally Posted by moorecajun View Post
    Congratulations monkeee! I also was the first in my family, in 1981. I beat you, but only because I must be a little older.
    To yourself as well.

    In all honesty, I graduated from Lafayette High in '81.

    So we're not that far apart in age.

    I just enjoyed my time at the Keg, errrrr, Mouton Hall so much, I stuck around for a while.

    But back to current day, seeing some of these cats post on Facebook that even in 2020, 2021 and 2022 they are the first in their family to not only go to college but get a degree is, for me, so emotionally powerful and such a sense of pride in our UL community.

    Its a good time to be a UL alumnus.

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    I was the First to Geaux in my family. My grandfather urged me to get an education. He didn't graduate high school, he farmed for a good portion of his life He understood the importance of education. Unfortunately, this lesson isn't being taught to many of our young people today.


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    Quote Originally Posted by RaginCajun77 View Post
    I was the First to Geaux in my family. My grandfather urged me to get an education. He didn't graduate high school, he farmed for a good portion of his life He understood the importance of education. Unfortunately, this lesson isn't being taught to many of our young people today.
    ………Ok I finally have an example of people leaving out the preposition which in the past were always used….”he didn’t graduate high school”…….where is the from? I’m not picking on the post but just wondering where or how it got started!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boomer View Post
    ………Ok I finally have an example of people leaving out the preposition which in the past were always used….”he didn’t graduate high school”…….where is the from? I’m not picking on the post but just wondering where or how it got started!
    Ultimately Boomer, in this case leaving out the preposition "from" is a huge time saver and peace keeper.

    If you say "from" they then want to know from where? Which high school didn't you graduate from? Which high school didn't your daddy graduate from? By the way, who is your daddy? Who were his teachers, was he a farmer. Where you from? And that often ends with.. "My momma."

    .... and everybody storms off.

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