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When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We left Germany when I was 11.

— Emayatzy Corinealdi

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

— Bernhard Langer

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

— Vin Diesel

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

— Patti Smith

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

— Becky G

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

— Guy Fieri

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

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.

— Nikki Giovanni

✗Opposing Perspectives

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

— Keren Ann

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

— Jacques Pepin