text: Yeah, right.  I was born in Yokohama during the occupation in 1947, and my dad showed up at the hospital with his Red Cross girlfriend to show me off to her.  That went over like a turd in a punchbowl with my mom, who got on a boat back to the states with me and my older sister as soon as she could.  I was brought up by a single mom in her 20's in the 1950's when the was no welfare, and got passed around to friends and family for several years.  Ended up leaving home at 17 and working my way through my senior year of high school sleeping on my older sister's couch.  I was born and raised poor, and I was never lazy because I didn't want to stay poor.  I graduated near the top of my class, got 99th percentile SATS, and got a scholarship to college.  First home I ever lived in that wasn't a rental was my own, which I bought with a VA loan when I was 29.  Went to 16 different schools in 7 different states growing up.
  
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