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238. The United States of Cory Booker

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Is Your Dad a Super Hero?

Your book is the memoir of some one raised in an extremely loving and extremely solid two parent household, with additional support from grandparents. How important would you say that has been to your success? I mean, it is all that i am. And added to that was a community that i grew up in, where i became an all american high school football player because of men and women in a small town in northern new Jersey who worked full time jobs and still came ome and coached me. So i am, in many ways, what my father said, that result of a conspiracy of love.

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