and so people like candace, teachers like candace, all of our teachers. they were eager to help the kids in whatever way they could possibly get. and i learned many lessons along the way about, you know, africa girl here who -- i said, okay, go ahead, go ahead and get your -- and they made be it. and it was wonderful. and the kids came back different, they came back, you know, from a community who, um, is such -- we have a high rate of poverty, kids that don't have anything giving to kids who really don't have anything. and so she took them to probably one of the world's largest slums, and the kids learned that i have so much. i have so much. and these kids really don't have anything. so thanks to my youngbloods out there. they taught me a thing or two about what could be done. [applause] >> i work at o henry, and so i'm very inspired by your story, but i'm immediately thinking, too, it's like we need to get every single politician to read this book and to see what they were setting you up for and how we can change this really punishing system of the high