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Recorded on 6/29/18 at Chabaso Bakery as part of the Bread Breakers project.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

"I grew up in a house where there were so many pictures of John F. Kennedy that I thought he was a relative."

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

"Well, I had a really crappy childhood, so, I guess, taking my experiences from my childhood, I see the world differently."

"Growing up in an Italian-Catholic family, with immigrant parents, immigrant grandparents, helped me to see the world through a blue-collar lens."

Recorded on 8/30/18 at Atticus Bookstore Cafe as part of the Bread Breakers project.

"When I used to live in Virginia, there was a lot of homeless people where I used to live, so seeing that kinda shaped my politics."

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

Recorded on 11/20/18 at the New Haven Free Public Library as part of the Bread Breakers project.

"The bombing of Cambodia in 1969 shaped my politics."

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

"They didn't even have a soccer team for girls in Milford growing up, and that was really kind of sad, because I loved playing it in gym."

"I grew up sort of in this bubble, which I think kind of insulated me from politics for a long time."

"I feel that attending college in a big city really helped out."

"My brother-in-law is from Peru and his family is having a difficult time staying in the country as of recently, so that sort of changed how I looked at things."

"I did not care in anyway about politics before I started thinking about where the world is headed and what it's gonna look like when my kids get older."

"I do disagree with some coworkers on some beliefs but I do still respect them."

"I think, like, being around some racist people in college, and wanting to speak up about it kinda shaped my politics, and made me realize there's a lot to be done."

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

"Political willpower sometimes isn't enough to trump some of those more urgent moments of inequality."

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set. Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.