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I didn't go to school a lot.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

My parents didn't have any money.

My parents could not be more Italian.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

All Italians speak Spanish without studying.

I hardly went to school.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.