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“Yet, even then I wasn’t unhappy. We had no objective perception of our own poverty because we had nothing to compare it to. Most of our neighbors were poor or working-class. We never doubted our mother’s love for us, and we saw how much she sacrificed to give us everything she could. We were a…” quote by Willie Parker — Download Open image

““Yet, even then I wasn’t unhappy. We had no objective perception of our own poverty because we had nothing to compare it to. Most of our neighbors were poor or working-class. We never doubted our mother’s love for us, and we saw how much she sacrificed to give us everything she could. We were a family, and we looked after one another as best we could.””

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