"I have learned to live in such situation of extreme adversity, " he says.

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The Social Security benefits I received enabled me to survive and eventually overcome the extreme adversity I had to face in the years to come, as I grew from boyhood into adulthood.

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They all overcame extreme personal adversity to triumph.

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