My Parents Abandoned Me At 13—Unaware That 15 Years Later They’d Be Begging At My Door

because I was his niece. If anything, he was harder on me.

“People are going to assume you got where you are because of nepotism,” he told me. “So you need to be twice as good as everyone else. You need to earn it so thoroughly that no one can question it.”

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