I never had a lot of pride. In fact any pride I had as a child was erased when my father through a beam through our front window one pleasant summer evening as the neighbors and I watched from their porch. It was humiliating. We were those people. You know, the ones you don't let your kids spend too much time with. My pride was stripped from me again one day as we walked with our suitcases down our street and through the neighborhood to my grandmothers home after another pai