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poor
A1Frequent NGSL-1having very little money; not having enough money for basic needs
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I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read,
The Danger of a Single Story
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There's no gap between rich and poor any longer—this is a myth.
They had been poor themselves.
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