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I literally grew up really happy.

I grew up in Akron, Ohio, the single mom,

two bedroom apartment with four brothers and a sister.

But the only time I wasn't happy is I caught my mom crying because the car broke down or the dishwasher broke down or my mom invested everything into her children six kids all of them Ivy League sumic-cum-Laud, really kind people, and had proved it today with, you know,

16 grandkids or whatever she has. But moreover, she worked two jobs, never complained,

packed our dinner in a paper bag.

She's, I joke up, I can barely talk about it.

But she showed unconditional love.

And so for me, my whole life was to prove to her that I could help her because nobody did.

Like my mom's a kind of mom you come down with the wrong attitude go back upstairs.

I'm not allowing it. She would tell me you're living below the line, blame shame

justification, don't count other people's money, like all these little things that

I didn't listen to. I just wasn't my mother who was in that business of empowering children.

I don't have the patience for that.

It wasn't in my aptitude or and although I love my children,

I'm not sure I could teach hundreds of them every day for 47 years like my mom did.

That's a saint.

I'm glad that my mom made me study.

Now, most people wouldn't know it because my mom's your typical Jewish mom.

Stands about this tall she

cooks like a unbelievable but she is a third degree black belt in the martial

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