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My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I was very poor when I was young.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

I was raised by a single mother.