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-company name: Gardner Rich & Company
-grew up in Milwaukee
-had a life changing conversation with a man driving a ferarri
-first son named Chris Jr.
-slept on the bay area rapid transit subway trains, Oakland or san Francisco airport, public bathrooms
-2 role models: mother and Reverend Cecil Williams
-“son, if you want to, one day you could make a million dollars”. A life altering phrase that his mom said to him
-sister name: Ophelia
-younger sister name: Sharon
-mother name: Bettye Jean
-grandparents name: Archie and Ophelia Gardner
-mothers’ 3 brothers: Archie Jr., Willie, Henry
-mother was beatufiul and was one of the top students in her school
-but her mother passed away early and she had to deal with a malicious stepmother and her own kids. She convinced her father to not give her any funds for college, and instead, spend the money on her own children, who were half as bright as she was.
-mother had relationships with Samuel Salter, Thomas Turner, Freddie Triplett
-first two were decent, but left her
-Freddie was very dangerous and abusive
-mother went to jail for alleged welfare fraud
-much of his childhood was spent time with uncles, aunts, foster parents