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Listen to Financially inclined wherever you get your podcasts. You're from here, from. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Jay Allison, producer of this radio show, and today we'll hear about lessons our parents teach us, whether they mean to or not.

Our first storyteller is Bridgete Davis.

She told her story at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Detroit, Michigan, where the moth was presented by Michigan Radio.

Here's Bridgete Davis live at the moth.

I was in my first grade class one day and I had just shown my teacher Miss Miller

and assignment. We had to color paper petals cut them out and paste them onto a picture of a

flower and as I'm returning to my seat Miss Miller stops me and she says,

you sure do have a lot of shoes.

The week before, she had asked me what my father did for a living,

and I said he doesn't work.

And she said, well, what does your mother do?

And I froze.

I knew I could not tell her that. My mom was in the numbers, which was a lot like today's

lottery except that it was underground and it really existed for decades before the

state basically took it over. My mom was a numbers runner. That means that every day except Sunday,

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