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uncle and aunts that came first to like try out a job and they called my mom and my dad and they went out here and they just ended up like staying and trying to build a life and so i was born as an accident and so i think maybe not my physical being but my soul remembers things like they remember feelings i think my soul remembers like my parents how they felt such a state of panic when they found out they were pregnant with and had nothing and i'm talking like six people in a two-bedroom apartment, like working at Domino's, picking up any sort of side hustle job, like going dumpster diving to flip things. Like they really struggled so hard. Here or in Brazil? Here. It was worse in Brazil. That's why they were like trying to run from like a horrible, you know, life. They saw the outcomes of like their parents and were like, no, we have to do better for ourselves. So they came to America and they figured it out. But I think as a kid, I remember seeing my mom be bullied for not being able to speak English and like seeing my mom struggle, like looking at me. I remember like flashes of like my mom looking at me at a drive through when I could barely you know speak English myself because I hadn gone to school yet I learned English in school My first language is Portuguese That all my parents knew You still speak Portuguese Yeah Yeah So I remember, like, I would learn from, like, the TV and stuff. And, like, I had that little CD thing that I'd watch in the car. And my mom was, like, sitting at a drive-thru trying to order something. She was like, I just, I remember feeling the, I guess, anxiety that she felt. And she would look at me, and she'd go down the window, and I'd have to order. Mind you, I'm like five years old trying to order number two from McDonald's. Like it was like that. Like I think my body remembers the state of panic that my parents were in. And I think that that has shaped like the work ethic I have. They like fought so hard to have what they have. And like, I mean, my parents lived out the American dream. I think now you are too. Yeah. And I just like, I think there's like this generational curse that my parents broke and that I just capitalized off of. Right. like granted probably wasn't the way that they wanted it to be but like I Always had like that like my soul always wanted to like help them because I think I remember How much they struggled I might have not physically remember like exact conversations or moments, but my body definitely does