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My mom has a copper plated stemless wine glass she always pulls out when I'm home. I tell her we can just use drinking glasses, but she insists. Catching up on work and recounting how long it had been since my last visit (too long), she asked me, a bit bluntly thanks to the Moscato, "Are you ever embarrassed of us back in New York?" It broke my heart, because even though I got what she was getting at, the answer has always been a firm no. Our house is humble. Neither of my parents are college educated, and the freezer on our back porch is filled with meat you can't buy at Kroger. It's not a world a lot of people get, and that makes it so easy to turn into a cartoon. I knew that she asked me that because to a big chunk of America, my lot of people are seen as dumb or backward. Embarrassing. That sentiment doesn't just appear out of nowhere.