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Difficult. every week you sit here and talk to people who have accomplished great things and you must be struck as i am when i observe these kinds of people how often they do not come from the most privileged and comfortable of backgrounds. right? it s a cliche that we talk about. doesn t that mean if you are someone contemplating raising a child that you should think twice about providing everything you can for that. i remember having conversations, in my last book i had a chapter on the generation of jewish men born in the 30s in the bronx to the children of garment workers who rose to become the most powerful figures in the legal world. i was talking to one of these guys and he was telling me how they all grew up in the bronx, their parents all had nothing. they all went to nyu when it was a commuter school and city college. then he was saying he was talking about how crucial that was to the fact he took this ....