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What we wrote in the country in New Jersey on a seven acre farm. And the school bus would not come the mile up the road to

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come to our driveway and pick this up like it did everyone else on the rail. Because whether it was snow than whether it was dark,

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it was heavily wooded. There were dogs out there and it was just, you know, for myself, my two brothers and

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sisters who were young children, elementary school, walking, you know, that mild. So the main road to stand at

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the end of the road and catch the bus. And they were adamantly not going to come up and pick us up at the driveway like they did

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all the other children for no good reason, of course. Well, my mom is next again. My father is African-American.

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We were never accepted by the way, kids in our neighborhood in school. I was never accepted by the black kids, always had different hair and I guess

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my different complexion and it was just evident that we were maybe because we were a biracial, but we never had that filling up acceptance.

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And I just, I learned what racism was very early on learning what it was to be discriminated against and treated very badly.

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They totally feces in our mailbox and on my doorstep. And I remember one time I had a favorite little doll as

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white little curly hair. And they came and tortured her and threw her up in like the tallest tree and I just had to like,

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I could never get it down. She just brought it up. There's the great thing about my childhood and I do look

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at my experiences wonderful. My parents really made sure that we had a very enriching childhood who were exposed to a lot.

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I loved working at her mom's Mexican restaurant and connecting with the clientele who were predominantly Mexican and

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Hispanic, they came here. So I love that. Again, you know, if it wasn't for that culturally enriching aspect of our childhood,

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I know that I would not be the woman that I am today where their history or walk into a business office and she has four.

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What are you using is prefixed by something nice like yeah, well, we do. What are you? All right, yeah.

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So I just said surfer. Well, my CFO goes 100% max again on 100 percent African American or anything.