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How to Navigate Guilt When You've Escaped Your Parents' Economic Reality

My parents cleaned office buildings at night so I could go to college and now I work in one of those buildings during the day, and I think about them every time I see the cleaning crew.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Educational and economic advancement can create a painful distance from the people who sacrificed to make it possible.

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