It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.
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I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
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My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.