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The purpose of the author writing this book was to inform people about her life and how some people can grow up with nothing and still succeed in life. I believe she achieved this when she talks about the way her family moved from place to place every 6 months or so and sometimes wouldn't have food in the fridge and when there was food their mother said “Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?”.