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Jahren’s Son
Jahren refers to her older brothers only to mention that she hardly noticed when they left home for college, because they hardly spoke to her when they lived at home. Growing up, Jahren’s family life was fairly cold and detached, a sharp contrast from the emotional warmth and closeness Jahren later shares with her husband, Clint, and her lab partner, Bill.
Jahren’s Brothers Quotes in Lab Girl
The Lab Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Jahren’s Brothers or refer to Jahren’s Brothers. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Roots and Leaves Quotes
As much as I desperately wanted to be like my father, I knew that I was meant to be an extension of my indestructible mother: a do-over to make real the life that she deserved and should have had. I left high school a year early to take a scholarship at the University of Minnesota—the same school that my mother, father, and all of my brothers had attended.
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Jahren spent much of her childhood playing in her father’s science lab, and this is where she developed her love of science and experimentation; yet as a girl, Jahren was not necessarily expected to become a scientist, as there weren’t many women in the field at that time. Her own mother had also taken an interest in science as a young girl, and briefly attended the University of Minnesota, but was unable to graduate for financial reasons. Coming back to the town where she grew up, getting married, and staying home to raise four children was not what the elder Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores.
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