we grew up in a town called massapequa, long island which was affect atly known as mozza pizza. we were like the kennedys with no money. we were the overachieving black irish catholic family with all these kids that all did pretty well in athletics and grades and ran for student office and everything. and my dad was a high school teacher in our hometown that taught at the other high school. so our archrival, every thanksgiving day, was my father. he was a football coach at the school that we had to play for bragging rights for the whole town. so there is was a real sense of competition and one upsmanship that came in that house that is the survival skill in my family. there's definitely a fierce competitor's edge that lies in all six children, the girls, too. >> now, who are you closest to, would you say? >> i would say i'm closest to billy. i have a certain understanding with steven, which is almost more like kind of a fatherly thing. when my dad got sick, steven was in sixth grade in grammar school. and i was a senior in high school. so i got the football coach at our school t