Robby Hoffman

Okay, so it was like a Jewish community in Brooklyn.

Yeah.

And then your mother was Canadian?

Yeah.

So you moved there, and it's like, oh.

And yeah, we don't have a two-parent.

My grandfather is over, and we moved in with my great-uncle Eddie, which was all amazing, but it was...

We just, like, were... My mother took over.

Everything was tight, and we were on welfare, and we could always feel the stress, the financial strain for my mother.

I mean, she talked about it openly, and even if she... There was no behind closed doors.

We lived in such close quarters that she's on the phone crying about this.

We're all... Can hear everything.

There's no, like, oh, you go to your room, you go to your room.

We're all sharing the same rooms.

So, you know, there's no...

Yeah, and then going, but I was exacerbated, and I've talked to this, so I don't have to delve too far, but going, my mother really prioritized education and thought it was a great opportunity that they would take me at the school, there's no question, and it was.

What school was it?

It was a Jewish private school.

In the neighborhood.

But it was, you know, a lot of my siblings went to the free schools in the public and they said they would take me and I could get this education.