Photo by Matt Roth..Melissa Boone Brown, a first generation doctoral student in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, seen sitting in the folding chair, plays a heated game of Taboo at the home of Eve Mcnair, a family friend on Thanksgiving Day in Sewell, New Jersey on Thursday, November 22, 2012. Melissa and her husband Ron Brown, drove from Columbia University in New York where they are both students to be with her sister and their cousins, for the holidays who live next door to Mcnair. Other people in the photo are (L-R) Bryan Alston, 5, Kathy Stewart, Martela Stewart, (standing), Melissa's first cousins once removed, Sophia, 6, and Gabriel Garcia, 2, Lana Mcnair (holding the doll), 5, and Kalaya Alston...Tensions, misunderstandings, and awkwardness that can sometimes arise when a first generation college student comes home for the holidays..
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