Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm picturing baby AOC.

It was really, and I was so close to my dad.

I was super close to my dad.

And so what was crazy about that moment, though, and then it was just like that happened overnight.

You know, my mom was a single mom trying to support two kids on a house cleaner salary.

And oh, by the way, this all happened in the fall of 2008, literally while the entire economy was crashing, like at the same time.

And I realized it just became this really stark moment of like, we could have done everything that they said.

You work hard, you get an education, you do everything right.

And you can get sideswiped.

And there is nothing here to really support you.

He was 45 when he got diagnosed.

That is the age of my husband.

Yeah.

Like that's not quote unquote supposed to happen, right?

So then all of us are like one accident away.

That's right.

And then this is happening during the financial crisis.

Mm-hmm.

You know, my dad, he had this conversation with me once.

This was before he even got a diagnosis.