![]() She also had me reading chapter books before kindergarten.įound: my birth mother, Toni Chandler, in the year 2000. She inhaled literature and read to me every day from the time I was a baby until I finally told her to quit already. From my mother, I learned a love of language and reading. Learned: from my father the value of hard work and honesty. As a poor immigrant child who was most definitely a self-made man with a 6th grade education, he couldn’t have been prouder. I remember the day he had actually earned his million. ![]() We were, however, the “poor rich.” My father made his money in the steel industry in WWII. ![]() Grew up: in Palm Springs, CA, in a neighborhood with movie stars and entertainment icons, including Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas and Arnold Palmer. To put that into perspective, he was born in 1883 and she was born in 1912. Wagner was 72 at the time Valeria was 42. I was adopted at birth by an older couple. ![]()
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