“When I came to this country I had no safety net. If I failed, I failed. At the end of the month I would have $2 left over, and if I had $5 I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I had no money. I was dirt poor. At Yale I worked the receptionist counter from midnight to 5 am to make money. When you don’t have a safety net, when you don’t have money to buy clothes for interviews and you are going to a summer job in saris, all of a sudden life gives you a wakeup call and you realize that you have got to work extremely hard to make it happen in this country for you. Having grown up through all
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