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" ... LW: For me, I looked toward work and success as a way out of the misery I felt as a child. And out of the poverty, too, both emotionally and materialistically. I think that’s a common coping mechanism whose intentions I want to honor, that many of us, who feel we’ve been emotionally deprived as a child and feel empty inside, want to fill up that emptiness with materialistic richness. That’s often how we make sense of the world as a child, and that’s very natural. It’s also painful to then realize that it’s not getting at the root of the problem. ... "