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I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.