What Does Family Mean to Me?
Having each other’s back. The feeling that you belong to a team. People who you can count on through the good and bad times. At times, obnoxious people who are all in each other’s business. Big dinners and loud parties. Having an extra-large pose at every graduation, birthday party, or any other cause that my BIG FAT Persian family feels like celebrating. People who celebrate you. People who have the ability to infuriate you more than anyone else because they know you better than anyone else so they know exactly the right buttons to push.
Family can mean a brother who will beat you up and make fun of you but at the same time will also beat up anyone else who attempts to bully you. Family means waking up in the morning finding yourself hanging on to the edge of the bed and trying not to fall off as you see little baby feet in your face and the little ones are stretched comfortably from corner to corner on the bed sleeping so peacefully.
Before moving to Alpharetta in 1996, I grew up in a prestigious town in Sweden called Vetlanda (something out of the Hansel & Gretel fairytale) with my older brother and mom and dad. My first memories of family time stem from there.
Today, my immediate family has extended to include my husband and son and daughter. However, being that I come from a BIG FAT Persian family, family to me is also defined by lots and lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Then of course there is the family that I was not born into, but that I chose for myself, and that is my dear life-long friends who I have grown up with. And let’s not forget my first babies, Sam & Simon, my late Labrador retrievers.
Sara Khaki went to high school in the heart of Alpharetta at Milton High School. She then went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from Georgia State University; and then received her law degree in 2008 from the University of Georgia. Sara is admitted to the Georgia State Bar and the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Georgia.
As an attorney, Sara has been distinguished by Atlanta Magazine and Super Lawyers as a Rising Star; she has been named by Georgia Trend Magazine as a Legal Elite; Sara has also received the prestigious AV Preeminent ranking by Martindale-Hubbell; she has been named a Top 100 Lawyer by the National Advocates; and she has received a 10 out 10 rating by AVVO.
Sara has served as a board member of the Atlanta Bar Associations’ Women in the Profession Section, she is an active member of Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Sara has also presented at continuing legal education webinars at both the Georgia State Bar and the Atlanta Bar Association.
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