Robby Hoffman

Thank God.

Yeah, well, you have to be.

It's like a necessity.

My mother always said, sink or swim, and it was clear that we would have to swim.

There was no option.

Yeah, I think accidentally so.

My mother was exactly the parent we needed.

She would have been spread thin, which she was.

She knew she wouldn't be involved.

She knew financially she couldn't be supportive.

She just, in a way, very subtly led by...

example for instance i love my mother my mother went back to school at night she took to to get away from the kids one night a week when we went to when we went to sleep my mother took one night class a week when you guys we knew it was yeah we knew it was wednesday maybe we were asleep eight o'clock like we're winding down my mother would go okay good night whatever we would you know my we would watch you babysit each other whatever and my mother went

To school one day a week.

And then like years and years go by and now I'm graduating university, which is a big accomplishment in my family.

Thank you.

You're doing this now?

No, no, no.

When I graduated, I went to McGill, the Harvard of Canada.

Thank you very much because it was a Montreal school that if I got in, you could go for free.

Really?