I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up…

Al Franken
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted. ✨ Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011 by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.
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