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I came into this world on a Tuesday morning in November, in a city that smelled of industry and ambition. My father was a man of few words and enormous hands — the kind of hands that had built things, broken things, and held our family together through years that would have shattered a lesser man. My mother was his opposite in every way that mattered: she was language, she was warmth, she was the reason I first understood that words could be weapons and medicine at the same time.
We were not wealthy. But we were not poor in the ways that damage a child's sense of possibility. We were poor in the way that teaches you the value of everything — every meal, every opportunity, every person who extends a hand without expecting one in return.
The neighborhood I grew up in no longer exists, not in any form I would recognize. The corner store where Mr. Patterson would extend credit to my mother during the lean months has been replaced by a parking structure. The church where I first understood that something larger than myself might be listening has been converted into condominiums. But the lessons of that place — the particular education of growing up in a community that had to fight for everything — those remain the most important curriculum I ever attended.