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Charles yu5/18/2023 And on the block where we lived I didn't play with any other Asian-American kids. But I think, to your point, there was something special for my brother and I growing up in southern California, where there are other Asian-Americans, but we didn't go to school with many. I remember Nadia Comaneci, it was on the news all the time about how she got perfect 10s and she had broken all these records! Even for an Asian-American kid in LA, she was absolutely world-famous. I grew up in Romania and I remember wanting to be a gymnast like Nadia Comaneci. It’s interesting how culture-specific idols shape our fantasies as kids. He was just too cool and obviously a kind of physical genius in terms of his fighting, grace, and velocity with which he moved. I watched Fist of Fury and Enter The Dragon, and there was something about him that was also not quite human. And somewhere among all this was Bruce Lee. This was probably based on video games where there are these really buff, impossibly good fighters. But there was a phase where I thought I would want to be a kind of hybrid between a video game character and a sort of elite fighter. I loved science and I had this image that I would go on to develop a pill that you could take once a day and you didn't have to eat. Charles, when you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
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