I never doubted that Quinn and I would get out of our circumstances. I certainly didn't know how I was going to ever earn much money, but it was just a given that I would eventually pull us out of that poverty and into the middle class. In fact, it was such a given that until I read this article earlier this week, I could never have even articulated this very notion. It was as factual to me as breathing or blinking or walking--nothing to think about because it's just a simple fact.