Mark Shriver — American Politician born on February 17, 1964,

Mark Kennedy Shriver is a United States Democratic Party politician who served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for two consecutive terms, from 1995 to 2003. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for the charity Save the Children. Shriver married Jeanne Eileen Ripp on June 26, 1992 and they have three children... (wikipedia)

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.
Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.