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How Much is “Comes From Money”?
Medium is filled with stories about those who flaunt what they have, pretend to be something that they may not be, and may in fact be living a leveraged lifestyle with little regard for true wealth.
But what about those who do have it and more than they could ever spend or know what to do with?
Those who “come from money.”
Growing up on the southernmost side of Evanston, where I could see buildings in Chicago behind the homes across the street from us, I did not know any better.
The neighborhood where I grew up was as diverse as diverse could be. Not only about one-third white and one-third Black but the other third was comprised of any and every race and nationality that you could think of. It was among the first areas where Southeast Asians, Middle Easterners, and immigrants from the African continent came to when they were able to scrape together enough dollars to “get out of Chicago.”
Almost none of them came straight from their home countries to Evanston. They put in a few years in the cesspool that is known as Chicago first.
Why this is relevant whatsoever is that before my father began reaping the rewards from his years of writing, our family of five spent many years leading a sort of…
