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My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.

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Michelle Rhee
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 25
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
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