starts pulling it across her shoulders and over her hips. and it's too tight. and so gets it on and she's still trying. and she starts working that side zipper up and holds her breath. he finally gets it to the top. pulls on her heels and turns around everyone looks at me. and she says how do i look. i was 12. almost as tall as she was. and i looked her straight back in the eye and i said you look great. really. and she walked out the door, applied for a minimum wage job at sears and got it. it was enough to save our home. and we made it on through. >> how did that -- how does that experience, the fact that you were raised on the ragged edge of the middle class as you say, how did that impact you in 2008,