I wasn’t always rich, powerful and popular. Once upon a time my family was broke. When I say broke, I mean really, really broke. I had duct tape on my shoes and my ripped jeans weren’t cool like every other kids, because mine were ripped from only wearing that one pair. Teachers thought I was a bad student, because we rarely had power so I couldn’t do my homework.

I don’t remember exactly when that changed, because it was a slow process. I remember waking up almost every night when I was a kid and finding my parents worrying about bills and debts at the table, but one night I woke up and they were sound asleep. The next morning, they were smiling. I didn’t eat cardboard cereal that morning, my mom made a whole feast! Things started changing around our house very quickly. Gone was the old furniture inherited from my great aunt (who was a big smoker so you can imagine how nasty that furniture was). We had brand new stuff everywhere. I got all new clothes, and expensive ones too. Our pantry was stocked full of the foods I always saw my classmates eating, all the best snacks. I wasn’t embarrassed to invite friends over anymore. One day I came home from school, and I got scared because everything was gone and my mom was standing at the door with suitcases.

“Did we get evicted?” I asked with a shaky voice while my eyes started getting kinda teary. It wouldn’t have been the first time. My mom just laughed and pointed at a really cool car pulling up. The window of the brand new car rolled down and I saw my dad sitting there, looking pretty smug. My mom grabbed my hand and we ran to put our stuff in the car and hopped in.

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