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Living In Harlem
Growing up in a lower income family can have many challenging. Personally, I have not experienced this outcome of living on a lower salary. But I do see this kind of poverty throughout the community.
But I realize that the income salary that a person makes does not affect how a person can become something in life such as a person who is living in upper Manhattan versus people who living in Harlem.
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