I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was very poor when I was young.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
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