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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.79,0:00:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm five years old, and I am very proud.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.78,0:00:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father has just built the best outhouse
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.34,0:00:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our little village in Ukraine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.93,0:00:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside, it's a smelly,\Ngaping hole in the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.48,0:00:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but outside, it's pearly white formica
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.48,0:00:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it literally gleams in the sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.11,0:00:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This makes me feel so proud, so important,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.67,0:00:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I appoint myself the leader\Nof my little group of friends
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.71,0:00:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I devise missions for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.49,0:00:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we prowl from house to house
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.80,0:00:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for flies captured in spider webs
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.17,0:00:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we set them free.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.56,0:00:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four years earlier, when I was one,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.86,0:00:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the Chernobyl accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.31,0:00:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rain came down black,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.64,0:00:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my sister's hair fell out in clumps,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.84,0:00:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I spent nine months in the hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.40,0:00:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were no visitors allowed,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.95,0:00:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so my mother bribed a hospital worker.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.96,0:00:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She acquired a nurse's uniform,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.69,0:01:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she snuck in every night\Nto sit by my side.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.04,0:01:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five years later,\Nan unexpected silver lining.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.10,0:01:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks to Chernobyl,\Nwe get asylum in the U.S.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.20,0:01:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am six years old, and I don't\Ncry when we leave home
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.42,0:01:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we come to America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.47,0:01:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I expect it to be\Na place filled with rare
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.22,0:01:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wonderful things\Nlike bananas and chocolate
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.40,0:01:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Bazooka bubble gum,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.84,0:01:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bazooka bubble gum\Nwith the little cartoon wrappers inside,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.93,0:01:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bazooka that we'd get\Nonce a year in Ukraine
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.05,0:01:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'd have to chew\None piece for an entire week.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.08,0:01:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first day we get to New York,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.89,0:01:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my grandmother and I find a penny
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.12,0:01:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the floor of the homeless shelter\Nthat my family's staying in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.87,0:01:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only, we don't know\Nthat it's a homeless shelter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.40,0:01:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think that it's a hotel,\Na hotel with lots of rats.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.49,0:01:54.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we find this penny kind\Nof fossilized in the floor,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.08,0:01:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we think that a very wealthy\Nman must have left it there
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.07,0:01:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because regular people\Ndon't just lose money.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.56,0:02:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hold this penny\Nin the palm of my hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.12,0:02:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's sticky and rusty,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.78,0:02:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it feels like I'm holding a fortune.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.82,0:02:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decide that I'm going\Nto get my very own piece
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.12,0:02:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Bazooka bubble gum.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.94,0:02:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that moment, I feel\Nlike a millionaire.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.92,0:02:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About a year later, I get\Nto feel that way again
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.24,0:02:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we find a bag full\Nof stuffed animals in the trash,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.99,0:02:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly I have more toys
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.72,0:02:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than I've ever had in my whole life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.47,0:02:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again, I get that feeling\Nwhen we get a knock
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.85,0:02:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the door of our apartment in Brooklyn,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.83,0:02:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my sister and I find a deliveryman
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.14,0:02:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a box of pizza that we didn't order.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.69,0:02:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we take the pizza,\Nour very first pizza,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.88,0:02:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we devour slice after slice
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.72,0:02:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the deliveryman stands there\Nand stares at us from the doorway.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.11,0:02:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he tells us to pay,\Nbut we don't speak English.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.11,0:02:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother comes out,\Nand he asks her for money,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.54,0:02:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she doesn't have enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.90,0:02:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She walks 50 blocks\Nto and from work every day
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.25,0:02:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to avoid spending money on bus fare.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.92,0:02:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then our neighbor pops her head in,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.78,0:03:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she turns red with rage\Nwhen she realizes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.37,0:03:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that those immigrants from downstairs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.72,0:03:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have somehow gotten\Ntheir hands on her pizza.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.73,0:03:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone's upset.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.28,0:03:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the pizza is delicious.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.12,0:03:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't hit me until years\Nlater just how little we had.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.09,0:03:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On our 10 year anniversary\Nof being in the U.S.,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.40,0:03:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we decided to celebrate\Nby reserving a room
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.51,0:03:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hotel that we first stayed\Nin when we got to the U.S.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.39,0:03:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The man at the front desk\Nlaughs, and he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.81,0:03:31.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You can't reserve a room here.\NThis is a homeless shelter."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.69,0:03:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were shocked.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.83,0:03:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My husband Brian was also\Nhomeless as a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.83,0:03:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His family lost everything, and at age 11,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.92,0:03:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had to live in motels with his dad,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.68,0:03:46.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motels\Nthat would round up all of their food
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.61,0:03:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and keep it hostage until they were\Nable to pay the bill.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.29,0:03:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one time, when he finally got his box
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.50,0:03:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Frosted Flakes back, it\Nwas crawling with roaches.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.09,0:03:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he did have one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.01,0:04:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had this shoebox that he carried\Nwith him everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.65,0:04:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,containing nine comic books,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.11,0:04:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two G.I. Joes painted\Nto look like Spider-Man
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.26,0:04:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and five Gobots. And\Nthis was his treasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.32,0:04:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was his own assembly of heroes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.32,0:04:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that kept him from drugs and gangs
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.52,0:04:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from giving up on his dreams.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.32,0:04:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to tell you about one more
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.36,0:04:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formerly homeless member of our family.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.16,0:04:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Scarlett.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.86,0:04:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once upon a time, Scarlet\Nwas used as bait in dog fights.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.92,0:04:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was tied up and thrown into the ring
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.34,0:04:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for other dogs to attack so they'd get\Nmore aggressive before the fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.38,0:04:36.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, these days, she eats organic food
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.62,0:04:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she sleeps on an orthopedic\Nbed with her name on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.31,0:04:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when we pour water\Nfor her in her bowl,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.56,0:04:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she still looks up and she wags\Nher tail in gratitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.55,0:04:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes Brian and I walk\Nthrough the park with Scarlett,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.77,0:04:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she rolls through the grass,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.18,0:04:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we just look at her
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.59,0:04:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we look at each other
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.41,0:05:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we feel gratitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.41,0:05:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forget about all of our new\Nmiddle-class frustrations
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.04,0:05:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and disappointments,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.92,0:05:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we feel like millionaires.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.60,0:05:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.75,0:05:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)