Post by Mur on Jun 9, 2010 23:11:58 GMT -5
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[/sup]Hello, ABLE MURPHY-O‘DOYLE.
>> Is there anything you would rather be called?
"Uh, not really…I’m used to everything, I guess. Able, Abe, A, Lee. Whatever you want to call me is fine.”
>> You know, has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like...?
"Spiderman. You know; Tobey Maguire? Its kind of cool, actually. I’m a great superhero look alike!"
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Let's talk about your personality.
>> What are a few of your favorite things?
"Reading. I like all kinds of Books - science fiction, history, even fairytales. There are so many things you can learn from them its…amazing! So reading is probably my favorite thing. But I also like driving. Anywhere. I find it really relaxing, even if you pass some guy and he gives you the finger and then follows you for miles. It just calms me down. Especially at night, in the middle of nowhere. You can look out any window and there’s just stars everywhere! Lets see, anything else…Ah, this is going to sound really…girlish, but I also like gardening. Its because I used to visit my uncles farm when I was a kid, you know? Its just always kind of stuck with me. And cooking’s fun, too, but don’t tell anyone I said that because I’m not very good at it. "
>>That's interesting. Is there anything you absolutely dislike?
"The taste of pork? Meat itself is great, I just hate pork. Celery is bad, too…But other than that, not much. Maybe rats?”
>> Hm, what is your greatest fear?
"I think failure is everyone’s greatest fear, don’t you? Failure in parenting, failing at accomplishing a goal before you die, failure at work, school, socialization? I’m big on success, so failing, to me, is like losing the lottery by 1 digit all the time.”
>> Yeah, that is scary. Do you have any dreams for the future?
"The usual stuff, I suppose. I…guess I kind of have this ideal picture of what I want it to be like in ten years. Sitting in a nice home with my family; a wife and a couple of kids sitting at our feet begging for a story before they go to bed, a job as…maybe a chemist waiting for me in the morning. I really want that. I think it‘d be great. I‘m just going to have to work for it."
>> Wow, I hope you succeed. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
"Um, I don‘t know, haven‘t I already told you a lot? I guess…I‘m smart? Or at least that’s what I was told all through school. That I was brilliant, most likely to succeed in some branch of science, which I guess was right because of chemistry. I‘m just kind of a normal guy. I spend my time doing things like reading or working, maybe helping out people I know. I‘ve never really had a lot of girlfriends, either. They‘ve always been looking for jocks and I‘ve always been the guy you get your homework help with, or the back-up for prom when your date dumps you the day before. I’m not really into sports, either. I’m just laid back, calm, I enjoy doing what I feel like doing at that moment as most people are. But I work hard. I’d climb a mountain if it meant achieving something, succeeding at what I want to succeed at."
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So far so good. Now for history.
>> So tell me, where are you from? What did you think of it?
"Well, my parents both came from mostly Irish heritage - if you couldn’t already guess it. My grandparents came here directly, but my dad‘s mother was from England, I think. I lived in Northern Ireland originally, but then we started moving around a lot so I don’t really have a place I truly love as my home.
My mom died when I was 7, which was really rough for me and dad, but after that I moved around a lot. And I mean a lot. I don’t think we ever stayed more than two months in a town. My dad had to find work all the time, because my mom was a doctor and she’d been our main income before that. He kept pressuring me to study, because he wanted me to be smart so I could get a good job and wouldn‘t have to hop around like him.
When I was about… 14, I think, I started staying with my uncle during the school year so I wouldn’t have to study in the back seat of a car anymore. Maybe that’s why I like driving, though, because I’m used to being relaxed in a car. But then two years back my dad got a steady job and I’ve been living here ever since. I don‘t really have to live with him anymore, really, but I think he enjoys having the company. Otherwise he‘d just go crazy.”
>> Do you have any other family? Parents? Siblings? Extended? What do you think about them?
"Well, I already told you about my parents, kind of. But I’ll tell you more about my mom. Her name was Saoirse O’Doyle originally, but she added Murphy to her last name, like on mine, after she married my dad. She was a nurse at first, but around the time she met my dad she was going back to college to become a doctor - which she did. After she became a doctor, she married my dad, Daniel, and about three years later I was born.
They were going to have a lot more kids than just me, but my mom started getting really sick. So, we found out she had cancer… I’ll probably get it, too, being a chemist. But I don’t mind, its not a useless way to go. Anyways, we could treat it for a while, but, then it started getting worse and we knew she was going to go, so we spent as much time as we could with her until she just… left us one day.
We had her buried near my grandparents’ house, because my dad knew we weren’t going to be able to stick around near where we lived. We had a lot of money from mom, but I think my dad felt guilty about it. My mom wouldn’t have cared. She was a great woman. But dad wouldn’t have it - that money was for my college education.
Dad started working again, wherever he could. Restaurants, convenience stores - we kept going from place to place looking for work. He tried his best to make me happy, which is great, because all I needed was books. So we kept going around until he finally got this good job as a mechanic.
I have an uncle (on my moms side) I stayed with for a while when we were still moving around, as I mentioned earlier, and since then we’ve all been really happy. Not that we’ve forgotten my mom, but…you know, she’d want us to be happy, so we keep on living and I keep on learning so its all pretty great.”
>> What is your worst memory/memories?
"The day my mom died. Definitely my worst memory. But as for any little traumas, there was this one day that my dad left me at a gas station for an hour because he didn’t know I crawled out of the backseat and went inside. I was really scared but, you know, all kids are. It got better, though, because the guy that worked there let me have candy until my dad came back, so its not that bad of a memory - just remembering the fear is enough to make it sickening. And there was this other time that I got an F on a school grade. My dad says I cried all day because I thought I failed, even though it was because I hadn‘t even taken classes there the past week so it wasn‘t my fault.”
>> What is your best memory/memories?
"A few weeks before my mom died, she and my dad were really miserable, because they knew it was coming. I was only 7, so I was still a little confused, so I climbed into our attic and put on a clown costume from Halloween the previous year. It didn’t really fit me anymore, but I did it anyways, and I ran back down to them and put on a show. That was…really great. I think it was the last time I heard my mom laugh the way she wanted to, because she wasn’t as sick then. But I mean my life is filled with great memories anyways - whenever I’m outside gardening, or driving down the road, I look back at all those times happily and its great.”
>> Where are you now? What are you doing with your life?
“Well, I’m doing great. Everything I’m doing is pointing me in the direction of becoming a Chemist, which is an amazing opportunity for anyone. I’m healthy, incredibly happy, everything’s just amazing! I’m working on becoming as successful as I need to be, and hoping for a family someday, looking forward to the future. And…yeah. Just hoping to accomplish everything I think needs to be done.”
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