At the time I went to prison I was forced to tell my wife, children, parents, family and friends about my crime and pending punishment.

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My parents are rich, my family is rich and my sister and I are, therefore, as good as rich.

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This holds true in my personal life as well, with incredible parents, family and friends.

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My family are from the area and my parents now live in Bude.

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There have been doors as you can see from my background all along my way because I was so fortunate to have a wonderful family, wonderful parents, and wonderful people who often times saw more in me than I saw in myself all along my way.

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Volunteering in the community was something that was highly valued in my family not as something we talked about but just something my grandparents and parents modeled.

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"My parents, they're just trying to get everything out of this moment, and they want to have a family business, so we started Team Snooki Music, " she said.

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My family lived in a little bitty apartment on the South Side of Chicago, and neither of my parents had the opportunity to go to college.

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Their kids, my parents, like many immigrant children, were the first in their family to go to college, buy a house and live the good middle class life.

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