"I felt like the luckiest kid in the……" — Al Franken

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was.… - Al Franken

"I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted."

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