Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Witherspoon i te Poutu-te-rangi 22, 1976 i te Southern Baptist Hospital, i New Orleans, Louisiana, i te wa e ako ana tana papa, a Dr. John Draper Witherspoon, i te kura rongoa o Tulane University. I whānau a Tākuta Witherspoon ki Hōria, ā, i mahi ia hei rangatira i te United States Army Reserve. I mahi takitahi ia hei otolaryngologist tae noa ki te 2012. Ko tana whaea, a Dr. Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (née Reese), no Harriman, Tennessee. E rima ngā tohu i whiwhi a Tākuta Betty Witherspoon, tae atu ki tētahi Ph.D. i roto i te mahi kaitiaki tamariki. I noho ia hei kaiwhakaako mo nga kaitohutohu i te Whare Wananga o Vanderbilt. I kii a Witherspoon he uri ia no John Witherspoon, i whanau mai i Scotland, nana nei i haina te Whakapuakitanga o te Motuhake o te United States; heoi, kaore tenei kereme i whakauruhia e te Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence genealogists. Kei te marena tonu ona maatua, ahakoa i wehe raua i te tau 1996. I whakaarahia a Witherspoon hei Episcopalian, a kua kii ia he whakapehapeha ia mo te "whakaakoranga tino tonga" i riro ia ia. I kii ia i whakawhiwhia e ia ki a ia "he whakaaro mo te whanau me te tikanga tuku iho" a i whakaakona ia ki te "whakaaro mo nga kare a te tangata, kia whai whakaaro, kia whai kawenga, kia kaua e whakahawea ki nga mea kei a koe i roto i to koiora". I te whitu o ona tau, i tohua a Witherspoon hei tauira mo nga panui pouaka whakaata a te kaihoko putiputi, na te mea i akiaki ia ki te whai akoranga mahi. I te tekau ma tahi o ona tau, i eke ia ki te tūranga tuatahi i te Whakaaturanga Talent-Ten-State. I whiwhi tohu pai a Witherspoon i te kura, he pai ki a ia te pānui, a, i whakaaro ia ki a ia ano "he tangata wairangi nui e pānui ana i nga pukapuka maha". I tana whakahua i tana aroha ki nga pukapuka, ka mea ia, "Ka haurangi ahau i roto i te toa pukapuka. Ka kaha te pupuhi o toku ngakau no te mea e hiahia ana ahau ki te hoko i nga mea katoa". Kua whakaahuatia ia hei "maha-whakataetae" a i tapaina ia ko "Little Type A" e ona maatua. I haere a Witherspoon ki te kura tuarua i Harding Academy, ka mutu i te kura o nga kotiro katoa o Harpeth Hall i Nashville, i taua wa he kaitautoko ia. I muri mai ka haere ia ki te Whare Wānanga o Stanford...  Pātai: I whānau mai a Witherspoon ki hea?
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