The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic ill…

Sonia Sotomayor
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The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements. ✨ Sonia Sotomayor (2013). My Beloved World, p.11, Vintage
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