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By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

I was a very isolated teenager.

I have always been independent.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

My kids learned to be independent.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.