... age of eighteen. She came with five brothers and a sister. None of them could speak English, but they were so driven to succeed that they worked in factories to make a buck and learned the language by interacting with a lot of the Italian-Americans. If I can say another good thing about my mom it is that she knows how to save money ... was. In a seconds notice, she grabbed me by the ear and put me in the car. I don't think my feet ever touched the ground. She put such fear in my heart that I never told her that I disliked anything that she made for me ever again. When I arrived at the c...

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