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“Mom, I’m doing my eyes.” “All right.” “I’ve started this letter for you guys many times.” “Beautiful.” “Say see you.” “See you.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “There’s so much I want to say, it’s hard to know where to start. You guys have been through so much in your life.” “I’m going to eat it.” “No!” “Being homeless so young.” “Mom, I see a blue heart. “Cool.” “And it is the middle of the day. You wouldn’t believe it.” “I just hope that each one of you never forget where you came from.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “You guys being born was the best thing that could ever happen to me.” “All right, daddy. Off the backboard, five.” “I can’t really say what a normal childhood would be like because I’ve never seen one. I used to worry about where I was going to live, who was going to take care of me.” “It’s not about making it. It’s about practicing running to the hoop and shooting. There you go, nice.” “Your dad and I grew up very similar. We only knew how people shouldn’t be. What it was we didn’t have.” “Me and your mom went to Job Corps to better our lives. We were homeless. So you know, they give you three hots and a cot.” “He just came over one day and started talking to me. And I was like, who’s this guy? You know, like. We were so excited just to be, like, grownups together in our apartment, all love and sparkles and everything. And then all of a sudden, one day, like, I’m pregnant. And then we got evicted from that apartment. Going in and out of shelters, trying different places. Where could we get help?” “I always worked hard. But the system is not set up for people to succeed. The system is set up for people to repeat.” “We were living in the car and we had nowhere to go.” “I slept sitting up. We had it in there like Tetris.” “Papa!” “Unbury us.” “I’m buried!” “Get your brothers.” “We never said, like, we’re homeless people sleeping in the car. We called it car camping.” “Splash your face.” “Every day, we were going to a new park. We were seeing a new place. We made it an adventure.” “Videoing him. There’s a video.” “Going to push you off into the nothingness.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Our whole goal is to just be those people for you guys that had we had, maybe things would have been different.” “I wish for a flower mate.” “None of you guys really noticed how bad it was. It was bad. You guys that we were just chilling in the car, watching movies at night, and sleeping next to parks.” “It’s miserable being hungry, you know, especially for a kid. You know, when they ask you, ‘Hey, can I have some juice?’ or ‘Can I have something to eat?’ And I don’t have nothing to give you.” “We’d get ready in the bathroom at the rest stop before school and work. It’s easy to dwell on those things. I hope you guys don’t remember the stress. I hope you don’t remember the fighting. “Your positivity and your spirit is always there. And it’s contagious. And it helps us get through everything. After all these years, waiting on numerous lists, it’s finally your turn.” “I’m the camera guy. I’ll be filming today.” “I’m your host. This is our room number. It’s our apartment. This is my parents’ room. This is where my dad plays his games. And this is where they sleep. And this is Mom’s yoga room. And this is where we hang up all our pictures that we drew.” “This is the mother in her natural habitat.” “OlĂ©.” “Her species is very known in France.” “In France? Stop.” [MUSIC – BRITNEY SPEARS, ‘OOPS!…I DID IT AGAIN’] ”(SINGING) Oh baby, baby. Oops, you think I’m in love. That I’m sent from above. I’m not that innocent.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “That’s Dave. And that’s Gabe. And that’s me. And that’s Zeke. And that’s Dad. And that’s Mom.” “Beautiful, mama.” “That’s Zeke and Gabe on the bunk beds, playing video games. And they have the Lego bucket right there. And this is Robin kicking around my soccer ball. And then this is just me on my computer.” “Look at that. My little cooker. My little cooker.” “I’m going to be a professional chef.” “That would be nice.” “Right now, it’s a time unlike anything we’ve ever seen.” “You’re not this big, you’re this big.” “People are getting sick, and there’s a lot of people out there that are afraid. I mean, I’m not really afraid of much. We used to stay in the car together. This is nothing.” “And we are on our first day of distance learning.” “You’ll remember how school was canceled. You’ll remember the masks everybody had to wear.” “Give me another one. Got to start over. Hold on.” “But most importantly, you’ll remember this is the year that things for our little family in our own little corner of the world started getting better.” “You OK?” “We’ve always had it hard, but I always would be happy that you have another day, another chance to make it different.” “Never forget that home is not a building. Home is where your family and the people you love are.” [MUSIC PLAYING]

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