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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
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- Marco Rubio
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- Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Marco Rubio: documented birth year 1971; activity date not established. Wikidata Q324546, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324546 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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