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while missing many of the lessons that might be learned there. Most of my insights from my childhood days came much later, as I considered my childhood from a different perspective. For example, I did not know until a couple of decades after I left my childhood home town that I was in the first class that integrated the "Mexican School" in that town. I had no idea of that. I grew up with more Hispanic friends than Anglo ones. I learn Spanish from those kids and met their families after school.

It was not until years later that I realized the level of prejudice that existed in my home town. Only then could I look at my experiences from a distance and see what my childhood eyes had not noticed.

My family was poor, too, financially, but I didn't really know that, either, until later. Where we grow up isn't necessarily instructive in terms of society. What we learn about our childhood experiences after we are adults is far more important.

I know almost nothing about Bernie Sanders' childhood life experiences or about his reflections on them later, actually.