I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.