Ford employee gets asked for winning lottery numbers, palm readings
Sheryl Connelly is a product of old Detroit — its struggle, grit and relentless determination.
Her father was "an Irish hustler" who grew up "dirt poor" in Corktown, never made it past the eighth grade and worked in a slaughterhouse before being drafted into the U.S. Army.
Her mother was a Chinese immigrant who grew up one of 11 children in a three-story mansion with clawfoot bathtubs, next to a brothel "with a madam who watched over them" in the Cass Corridor, where the family ran a laundry service out of their home.