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Bob Huff was born just outside of Dayton, Ohio,

in the blue-collar factory town of Moraine City.

Bob's early life was anything but easy, but as you'll hear,

that clearly didn't stop him. Here's Bob to tell his own story.

I remember we had a three-room house. There was a kitchen, a living room, and a bedroom,

and sort of a pop-belly stove in the middle of the three rooms. The street had no plumbing. We

didn't have any sewage. So as time went on, my mother and my father moved to another home, and at that time, there were serious issues between them, namely alcoholism on my father's part.

And I didn't realize that as a child. I don't think you remember. So my mother and father got a divorce, so my mother became a sole income source

for the family. She worked very diligently. She worked in a factory. My mother lost her job at the

factory because the factory went out of business. And then it became a situation where she worked very diligently

at whatever job she could get, but she just worked.

So my brother and I was sort of left to care for ourselves.

So it was a great learning experience for me

to sort of grow up with a single parent

and with a parent who did everything she could to make life as normal as possible.

And as it became a teenager, the reality set in that it's time for me to get a job.

My mother just told me, so, well, you know, you're going to have to earn your own spending money, Bob,

because I can't afford to buy all the

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