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They made a living as divers, spearfishing or harvesting shellfish.
Tsz Pun made a living from the restaurant for two decades.
Mr. Sagawa made a living writing novels and Japanese-style comics.
I always made a living as a teacher: kids, university, visiting artists.
Many are families who have made a living for generations by herding animals.
People who made a living doing this, and asked for nothing in return.
We kept the rest for us and that's how we made a living.
This means that he has successfully made a living as a professional rebel.
Danny Wylde, has made a living in the space between pleasure and pain.
From Borat to Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen has made a living playfully offending people.
Trump's surrounded by people who have made a living in the Clinton conspiracy business.
They've made a living out of telling it all on television and social media.
Blacksmithing was old-fashioned and hardly anyone actually made a living at it anymore.
As a star pupil of Stockholm's Royal Academy, she made a living selling impressionistic landscapes.
Francesco: We never made a living with our music, and it's getting harder and harder.
In general, I don't believe in hiring people who have made a living trashing you.
In the United States, he said, he had made a living building wire-stripping machines.
Like many women in the 1950s, Bette Nesmith Graham made a living as a secretary.
Besides fishing, they made a living rowing goods and people along the waterways around Guangzhou.
They made a living by selling stories or tips to the regional or national Khmer dailies.
Or her brother, who made a living in Las Vegas playing blackjack from a memory system.
Mets 5, Phillies 33 PHILADELPHIA — David Wright has made a living hitting in Citizens Bank Park.
Meyer made a living selling papers from a newsstand at the corner of 2200th and Market.
I enjoyed some decent success and made a living, eventually growing to a company of eight people.
"Here's a person who has basically made a living lobbying in the swamp … in Washington," Manchin said.
The men—they decline to give their names—don't hesitate to say how they made a living.
Shull hails from the financial world, having made a living as a trader and trading desk manager.
For most of their existence, villages on Guatemala's Caribbean coast have made a living off of fishing.
He has since made a living through a jigsaw puzzle of writing assignments, consulting and book authorship.
Al Franken It's adorable to think I made a living by pointing out that people were lying.
Feature The second-term Democratic senator, who once made a living satirizing politicians, envisions an unfunny future.
Over 60,000 people made a living in or around Tsukiji as auctioneers, stevedores, clerks, grocers, restaurateurs and knifemakers.
You've made a living — or for many parts of your career — writing things that are primarily print, right?
Mr. Morris has made a living denouncing Bill and Hillary Clinton in books, columns, blogs and television appearances.
"I've made a living all these years as a ghost who makes others sound good," Mr. Bain continued.
If the Arctic fossils are indeed fungi, it's a mystery how the tendril-sprouting organisms made a living.
For a few years, he made a living portraying his great-grandmother, an immigrant Jew in 245 Brooklyn.
Before ISIS came, Al-Sharina made a living trading livestock in this verdant and remote corner of Syria.
This is the Black Spire Outpost's popcorn stand, where the proprietor has made a living out of flavored popcorn!
Trump has made a living in this political cycle by rewriting the conventions of how to win an election.
She headed north soon after, arriving in New York in 1920s, and made a living mostly as a nanny.
The recruits included people who previously made a living washing windscreens at crossroads or working as informal parking attendants.
TORONTO — Through most of his 13-year major league career, J.A. Happ has made a living inducing fly balls.
It does happen: Jerome Schlichter has made a living helping employees sue everyone from Johns Hopkins University to Ameriprise.
Zamourka told the station that she's a classically trained violinist and pianist and made a living as a street performer.
He has the high cheekbones of his nomadic ancestors, who made a living walking tightropes to entertain the Mughal courts.
He made a living by picking fruit in Northern California, before trying his hand at amateur boxing and driving trucks.
What happened to Cooper sucks and, if you've ever made a living freelancing, then his story will touch a nerve.
The family made a living as corn farmers, and had been in Cenmang for more generations than anyone could remember.
The younger Mr. Braverman, who was not yet born, grew up ignorant of how his father actually made a living.
He had no public service experience and had made a living as an agent and broker for professional soccer players.
Jailed but ultimately released after eating a woman in France, Mr. Sagawa has made a living from his life story.
A generation ago, this hamlet was a herring town, a place where almost everyone made a living from the sea.
Previously, even those who weren't a grower or raspachín (harvester) in their own right made a living off people who were.
Gonzalez made a living playing in jazz bands four times a week, or performing solo acoustic gigs at restaurants and wineries.
Speaking through a Punjabi interpreter, an immigration official quizzed the Singhs about their lives, in particular how they made a living.
NEW YORK/MEDICILÂNDIA, Brazil (Reuters) - For years, Valdomiro Facchi has made a living ranching on land carved from the Amazon rainforest.
"I've made a living off of being able to capitalize on certain stocks where there's absolutely no informational advantage," he said.
Samantha Hess, founder of Portland-based cuddle company Cuddle Up To Me, has made a living by offering platonic cuddling services.
The first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in NYC during the 1870s and made a living by opening restaurants and laundromats.
In our first years in Florida, my mom made a living cleaning other people's houses and taking care of other people's children.
For the past several decades, he has made a living by selling antiques and meteorites in a shop dubbed "Space Village" (Uchumura).
With cameras at the ready, this husband-and-wife photography team made a living shooting elopements and weddings across the American west.
For more than a decade, the performer and choreographer Larissa Velez-Jackson has made a living teaching fitness classes to older adults.
After his aunt passed away, the future mogul moved to California and made a living by working odd jobs here and there.
RE: AL FRANKEN Mark Leibovich profiled Al Franken, the second-term Democratic senator from Minnesota who once made a living satirizing politicians.
Writer and producer Gary Janetti has made a living creating some of television's funniest stories, and he's upping the ante in 2020.
The science behind the pajamas is as straightforward as one of those quick slant passes Brady has made a living on for years.
"Because it was such a long time before I made a living as—" She doesn't complete the sentence, but she doesn't need to.
I spent way too much time there trying to learn to play and watching two people who nearly made a living playing pool.
NEW YORK/MEDICILÂNDIA, Brazil, April 12 (Reuters) - For years, Valdomiro Facchi has made a living ranching on land carved from the Amazon rainforest.
Medallion prices in New York and elsewhere plummeted and lenders who made a living by financing the taxi industry went out of business.
When she got her start in porn in 13, she made a living doing mild girl-on-girl or vanilla hetero sex scenes.
His parents, Marvin Sherrod and the former Lorna Forrest, eventually gave up on farming, and his father made a living as a barber.
The 21-year-old made a living under the basket, and only recently extended her range to help with spacing once Fowles arrived.
At the time, he made a living by waiting tables, for "everyone from Shaq to Nicole Kidman and John Travolta," he has said.
But the "hustlers" — who made a living for themselves and would abide no attempt to take away their money or their guns — were.
My father made a living in mining, and we embraced the libertarian ethic of freedom, littering and an overinflated identity of real America.
I've made a living by being an editorial photographer and also shooting news features all my life, but I've always been a content photographer.
They moved their families into a small rental home for a time, and made a living by working as contractors on small construction jobs.
Among those arriving on Sonnenallee was 34-year-old Ammar Kassem, who had made a living in Damascus selling poultry to restaurants and shops.
Film Club This short documentary looks at Dennis Hope, a Nevada man who has made a living "selling" plots of land on the moon.
Brodie Smith has made a living from frisbee trick shots, while Dude Perfect scored TV and toy deals for sinking seemingly impossible basketball shots.
He was still welcome in China, however, and he and his wife for several years made a living conducting tours of China for Americans.
It may have been even less suspicious because he made a living at times both as a truck driver and as an Uber driver.
For years, he made a living sowing traditional dresses indigenous women wore and selling cotton candy, but always hiding and fearful he'd be found.
He was still welcome in China, however, and he and his wife for several years made a living conducting tours of China for Americans.
Over the last couple of years, Boudreau says she has made a living giving talks about countering violent extremism across Canada, the US, and Europe.
It is also the place where I have made a living for four decades giving art classes to small groups of children everyday after school.
"There were very prolific freelance writers who made a living writing for many publications and were fighting for every dollar they got," Mr. Gleick said.
He made a living painting and designing animated TV commercials and kid's shows but all that changed in 1970, when he met author Elizabeth Levy.
I asked Brew why someone who'd made a living as a comedy writer would create a bot to do the work for him and others.
Spotinst has made a living finding budget resources on cloud platforms and reselling them to developers at a deep discount over cloud vendor retail pricing.
Like his father and grandfather before him, Mr. Wang, 53, made a living combing the Yellow Sea for flounder, herring, fat greenling and yellow croaker.
She'd not only made a living from her work there but also offered free haircuts to the homeless and to kids heading back to school.
As it happens, several of the men in thick blue overalls and white helmets who operate the hulking machine once made a living pumping crude.
The entrepreneurs behind Loflin Yards, John Planchon and his business partner, Taylor Berger, have made a living transforming forsaken buildings into popular bars and restaurants.
In the kitchen, Mansfield stood over a big silver pot and introduced his neighbor Jim Palmer, who made a living drilling wells for local residents.
The show is colossal and comprehensive, even including forays into design from the period in the 1930s when Giacometti made a living producing decorative objects.
Mubarak was justifying what he was doing by viewing himself as a skilled entrepreneur rather than someone who made a living by committing immoral acts.
Ju, who defected to the South in 2011, said she also made a living by selling banned South Korean and U.S. products in the underground economy.
Authorities have described the deceased as drug users and sex workers who made a living on the streets of the small border city of Laredo, Texas.
Before cats had millions of Instagram followers, a photographer named Walter Chandoa made a living compiling photos of them into coffee table books in the '50s.
Wiggins has complained that the investigation "felt nothing less than a witch hunt" and said his life had been made a "living hell" by the episode.
I made a living at pretending I'm a reporter, which Donald trump knows, & was a fan of, why would he have me arrested for duping him.
Polling places posted signs alerting voters to Hof's death, but that didn't stop them from voting for the man who made a living running sex ranches.
Fifty years ago there were no driving instructors in the world: what would he have done 50 years ago, how would he have made a living?
If Aubert and his colleagues are right about that, it means that somebody 43,000 years ago created a firsthand record of how they made a living.
I know lots of people have made a living out of crapping on the guy, but what he did was bring actual viewers to the network.
From then on DeLillo would lead an existence that's all but unimaginable today: He has made a living purely as a literary novelist, teaching no classes whatsoever.
For many years Mr. Robinson made a living as an editor at magazines like Seventeen and Good Housekeeping, but baseball and other sports were always his passion.
Mr. Centeno's great-grandmother, for whom his more traditional Tex-Mex restaurant Bar Amá was named, left Mexico for Texas, and once made a living frying tacos.
He has made a living robbing luxurious apartments of their masterpieces, sometimes using an arbalest, ropes, snap hooks and a harness to scale facades and gain entry.
There's no better reflection of that idea than the words of Mark Twain — a man who made a living as a humorist and wrote stories about jumping frogs.
He had made a living managing commercial satellite launches and threw himself into sailing in his 30s, after going on a yacht in Hong Kong and becoming enchanted.
I now find myself in an occasional state of surprise that I've made a living as a novelist for quite some time, the opposite of what I expected.
He says that the people who made a living teaching about music and art were jealous of people who made their money by actually playing and making it.
They rebuilt their homes and, when the first tourist hotels opened in the 18513s, made a living by catching and selling fish, chopping wood and cleaning hotel rooms.
From the 1830s until the eve of the Civil War, men like Henry William Herbert made a living selling adventure tales larded with wily bucks and ferocious bears.
After the movie shoot, I called him and explained with saintly patience that I made a living with my face and sometimes I needed one that could smile.
CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the parched, mountainous hills of Leliefontein, in South Africa's northwest Namakwa district, farmers have long made a living raising oxen and goats.
Meka was one of hundreds of people who lived near the dump, many of whom made a living scavenging recyclable waste that can be sold on, like plastic bottles.
In Malaysia, Seah remembers how his parents were once ashamed they made a living from collecting and reusing scrap, believing it to be a profession that was not respected.
But while they made a living off Good Mythical Morning, the traditional business of YouTube didn't allow them to venture beyond their daily diet of stunts, challenges, and conversational vlogs.
You were seeing a lot of 'hip Asians' in commercials and print, so I made a living doing that, but it took me seven years to find a boutique agent.
The De Moulin brothers made a living by inventing trick devices, like the "automatic water-cooler for initiating purposes" that shoots a stream of water in the unsuspecting victim's face.
She made a living by selling subscriptions to her newsletter, and companies would buy these subscriptions to appease her and avoid her lengthy scoldings of management at annual meeting time.
She was born in a small town outside São Paulo to a Brazilian mother who made a living cleaning wealthy people's houses and an Argentine father who worked in construction.
The people who made a living turning rice and fruit juice into alcoholic drinks — often the poorest, lowest-caste residents — have been pushed into lower-paying jobs as day laborers.
Lots of companies have what are essentially dumb terminals running just the tools each employee needs, rather than a fully functioning standalone PC. Citrix has made a living offering these services.
Despite his paralysis, Gonzales has made a living out of his passion for horses and is one of the only registered horse trainers in Texas who is disabled, his wife said.
The 68-year-old, chain-smoking swamp aficionado remembers the second-ever state-sponsored gator harvest back in 1989, and at one point made a living from hawking the critters' hides.
George Parros has an Ivy League degree in economics, but he made a living for nine years as an N.H.L. enforcer, protecting his teammates by being willing to drop his gloves.
Anthony Sullivan has made a living selling cleaning products on television, but his latest venture has him getting dirty in a way he couldn't have imagined only a few years ago.
Billy Long (R-Mo.), who made a living off his oratory skills as an auctioneer and talk-radio host, said no one would miss the response if congressional leaders nixed it.
The residents of Freirina commune, on the coast of Huasco province, 20503 km (435 miles) from the capital Santiago, have traditionally made a living from mining, olive farming, fishing and collecting seaweed.
It was a risky gamble for two men in David Simon and George Pelecanos to take on this subject matter without demonizing a world they never lived or made a living from.
I don't like to get too personal on here, but I feel the need to honor the person I have made a living and career of trying to please at all times.
I'd made a living since analyzing toxicology reports from the colonies' watering systems and plumbing and Klimt had discovered me a bit of a wreck before a screen in a basement room.
As recently as last year, Porowski was an aspiring actor from Montreal who made a living as the personal chef and assistant to his neighbor Ted Allen — the original "Queer Eye" foodie.
One man who has made a living doing so is Jason Heaton, a Minnesota-based journalist, who is known to watch geeks as a test pilot for the world's most illustrious undersea timepieces.
In fact, the Bronx native and photographer made a living as a street vendor, jewelry designer, photography printer, and cab driver, while he was photographing Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Marsha P. Johnson.
She grew up in a working-class family in Medfield, a small town in Massachusetts, where her father worked as a mechanic and repairman and her mother made a living as a seamstress.
Three social media stars who made a living traveling the world and chronicled their experiences online died last week after an accident at Shannon Falls, about 35 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia.
And Coffey, the viral country crackup who has made a living not only on his sheer talent but his addictive way of looking at the bright side of life, broke down in tears.
After discharge from the service, Mr. Baltrop returned to New York City, where he lived on the Lower East Side with a woman named Alice and made a living as a taxi driver.
John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, has made a living wrestling with the food legacy of a region built on slavery, and has attracted plenty of critics along the way.
I wanted to know how she felt about a Westerner who's made a living showcasing Chinese street cuisine, without fully contextualizing how that same economy fits into the dramatic ways China is changing.
While Ms. Loomer has since written plays on a regular schedule, she has largely made a living writing for Hollywood, though she said that much of her work was either unproduced or not credited.
One of the best polo players on the planet says a big name Hollywood star could've made a living off the sport ... telling TMZ Sports Tommy Lee Jones is no joke on the pitch!!
It was there that Zaid Imad Khalaf, 24, made a living selling chickens, scraping by next to a grocer who sold onions by the kilogram and a trader who sold flour by the scoop.
Westenhofer, who is 213 years old, has the physical presence of a set builder rather than a pixel pusher, with the easygoing air of someone who's made a living out of realizing impossible things.
"Land is key," said Mr. Martin 36, a single farmer who made a living selling health club memberships in Paris until he left his job about five years ago, eventually to take up farming.
He described how he was motivated by the wrestling match bombing last year, whose 14 victims included a 10-year-old boy who had made a living by selling seeds and nuts to spectators.
It was, and remains, a ridiculous way to have made a living—one that battered my liver and wallet, and left me with a weird Peter Pan complex as I headed towards my late 20s.
In previous decades they might have made a living from fishing or subsistence farming, but now they work for the government's environment ministry, which has struggled to address the problem of pollution along the Motagua.
People in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin have made a living, paid their taxes, educated their children and built their communities in large measure through the industrial output of the now-defunct American Rust Belt.
One third-party seller who has made a living selling tennis equipment on Amazon since 2012 said he's lost sales to Amazon, which has sold similar products for under the minimum price set by the manufacturer.
Many of these artists never really made a living from their work, and more often than not their idiosyncratic routines were directly sustained by the labor of spouses and servants, afforded by independent wealth, or both.
As for me, I don't want to hear from any of the far-left "open government" types who have made a living whining about money in politics with a particular emphasis on the Citizens United v.
During an 18-season career, he made a living tearing past sorry defenders to score almost 200 goals, collect league titles with Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan, and be crowned Africa's best player three times.
"The populist movement is going to do a house cleaning of all those individuals that made a living off the conservative grassroots while stabbing them in the back," a source familiar with Bannon's thinking tells CNN.
"I had worked years and years to become Manny MUA, to become this person people could look up to and see and be inspired by, and someone who has made a living off of that," he said.
He made a living from the corn field he had in his town, and when life told him it was better to wake up on the other side, he did so as a farm manager in Venezuela.
Livia, which is a pseudonym I'm using at her request, told me she and her husband had made a living with a small corner store in Atlantida, Honduras, selling rice, beans, matches, soap, and other household sundries.
An immigrant from Wenzhou, a port and industrial city in southeastern China, he started out in a garment factory nearly two decades ago and later made a living selling at flea markets around the country on weekends.
In the meantime, Saint-Plux, who made a living as an English interpreter, is trying to figure out how to scrape together enough money to rebuild the roof of his house and keep his two children in school.
While both men made a living in New York working in Chinese restaurants, Wu Long Chen was fired about five years ago and in his despair he sought out Tianxia Chen, who had also moved to the city.
Moreover, his fancy leather boots, which resemble modern waders, are a good sign he made a living off the river, likely as a fisherman, sailor, or a mudlarker (a person who sifts through mud in search of lost valuables).
The SUR bartenders and servers who star on Vanderpump Rules have made a living putting their hard-partying lives on public display, so it's only natural we'd defer to their expertise on how to get rid of a hangover.
There's a lot ... there's a pretty good — at least at the time — a pretty robust economy for people in film development, be it executives or people who were doing rewrites and things like that, and I made a living.
The Cardinals, who had made a living off the NL East this season with a 13-2 record in 15 previous games against the division, dropped to 33-38 to wrap up a seven-day, six-game road trip.
It endures on the fringes of the repertory as a display cabinet for comic actors, and a few of the roles, like Lady Gay — "glee made a living thing," as one character describes her — must be bliss to play.
"Early on, they disguise it in a way that you can't even tell the shape of the car," Brenda Priddy, a famed "spy photographer" who has made a living selling shots of camouflage-laden prototypes to automotive publications, told CNBC recently.
LAGOS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Her family wanted her to be a doctor or a lawyer, but on discovering as a teenager she could contort her body in unusual ways, Nigerian Ifeoma Amazobi decided that would be how she made a living.
His arm and leg were cut off: Ji made a living by stealing coal from freight trains and trading it for corn, but one night he fainted and fell between two cars, and his leg and arm were cut off.
Many would tell you they fled war, they came as refugees to America, they made a living here, they are law abiding citizens, they are a part of this economy, facing all the problems these candidates talked about Monday night.
When Dockery decked a malicious sportswriter—"A disheveled sports geek who couldn't play the games and now made a living criticizing those who did," is Grisham's less-than-masterful description—I gave up encountering any character resembling a human being.
Negativland was largely centered in the San Francisco Bay Area through the mid-23s, at which point Mr. Lyons moved to Seattle; outside of his work with the group, he made a living partly by buying, reconditioning and selling used cars.
"We have a Gaza City under the ground, and we have nothing up here," said one 213-year-old in the camp, who spoke on the condition he be identified only as Akram, and said he made a living delivering groceries.
Workers, who once made a living wage, now labor for substandard pay with no benefits, partly because they are afraid to demand more in the face of corporate threats to close up shop and move to another country with slave-like wages.
Before she made a living through cooking, Ina was a nuclear-budget analyst at the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., under the Jimmy Carter Administration—a career path that was inspired by Jeffrey, who was working at the State Department.
So often one emoji goes a long way and lets me get on with my whole day," he continued, adding, "It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
Thanks to the artists all over the world who've made a living by creating extra-small tattoos, the look has become less of a trend driven by celebrities and more of a nuanced art form that just so happens to be very delicate.
Strausbaugh has made a living writing detailed histories of New York (his last book was a 220-year history of New York's Greenwich Village), and City of Sedition is no different in its expansive coverage of the city during the Civil War.
"From the beginning, I wanted to protect the identity of Credico, because I knew that his support for Julian Assange and the journalistic independence of WikiLeaks would not be popular in the progressive left circles where he made a living," Stone said.
But like most mainstream Republicans, they prefer their support to be at least one step removed from characters like Jones, Johnson, and Loomer, all of whom have made a living off blatant racism and accusing mass shooting survivors of being paid actors.
But the TVA was also made a living reality by individuals such as Mary Utopia "Topie" Rothrock, a librarian from Knoxville, Tennessee, who was charged with finding something to read for the thousands of TVA workers back in the pre-TV days of the 1930s.
Starting off performing as a child—"mum enrolled me in every class: tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop, ballet"—she's since made a living modelling, DJing and initially making music under the name Maad*Moiselle (see this A$AP Ferg collab from a few years ago).
John Cena has been called the greatest WWE star of all time, but take a step back and you'll find that the world-championship winner is much more complex than you'd assume of a man who's made a living body-slamming people for entertainment purposes.
During the post-war period, he initially made a living working as a jazz saxophonist, and then emigrated to the United States with a brief stopover at Liberia—his father's homeland, where he was recruited by Uncle Sam to fight in the Korean War.
What's more, one could argue that Robbins was simply speaking his truth, and what else can we expect from a man who's made a living (and a very good one -- Forbes has estimated his net worth as close to $500 million) as a self-help guru?
The victim, whose life has been made a living hell after her name was leaked on social media—she's had to change her name five times and has moved almost as frequently—says she woke up the next day naked in her hotel room with no recollection of what happened to her.
If they were a big enough celebrity, they could hire a team of PR people and handlers who would prevent the world from knowing about their suckier qualities—think about how many people made a living in the 90s simply by keeping the world from knowing how shitty a person Michael Jordan was.
Living In 10 Photos View Slide Show ' When Al Grover, 5013, moved to Freeport 80 years ago, commercial fisherman and baymen — "people who made a living off the water" — lived near the canals that slice into the southern edge of this incorporated village on the south shore of Nassau County on Long Island.
As the sun began to set on a recent cloudless afternoon, the kind that makes it unthinkable to spend winters anywhere but in Florida, Rick Collins piloted the High Cotton to a dock in Everglades City, the fishing village where three generations of his family have made a living trapping stone crab.
These windswept zig-zag roads were never meant for Volkswagen Polos; they were routes used in the Middle Ages by the drovers, a mysterious and charismatic breed of Welshmen who made a living going around farms and collecting cattle for export, which they would then march to the markets of Birmingham, Manchester, and London.
Yet, right when political humor could be ripe for the plucking by the right person, the 57-year-old MacDonald—who once made a living by cracking jokes about the week's news as the scrawny, smartass anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update—spends the entirety of his hour-long special avoiding anything that could be remotely deemed as topical.
She traveled with him and took odd jobs (including wrapping Sugar Daddy candy bars on a factory assembly line in Massachusetts); discovered she was pregnant and gave birth in Ireland; returned to Portland when their son was 7; left her boyfriend; and, as a single mother, made a living as a waitress in a diner in the morning, and a bartender at night.
It begins with the story of her childhood, growing up in Oklahoma on the edge of the middle class; of a father ("my daddy") who made a living selling paint and carpeting and housewares, who fell out of work when he almost died from a heart attack; of a mother ("my mama") who walked to Sears in her best dress to get a job and pick up the slack; and of Warren, a girl who learned words like "mortgage" and "foreclosure" when she was still a girl ("heavy words for a kid," she says) before putting herself through two public universities, before becoming a school teacher, a bankruptcy expert, a Harvard law professor, the creator of a new consumer protection agency, the senior senator from Massachusetts, and now a presidential candidate.

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