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In First-Generation American · by brother_marcus · Apr 22, 2026

My father's auto-body shop has been in the family thirty years. He is sixty-seven and slowing down. My younger sister wants me — the engineer — to come home and run it. She would run operations. I would carry the name on the building. I love what I do now. I love the shop too. The math is not the question. The identity is. First-gen brothers who have been here — how did you decide?