True. I want to thank everybody for coming today. It's really just a privilege and honor to be here. My basic charge here is to tell you about my research and I hope to do that and let you know how and why it's important. Here's a little story about myself. I grew up in poverty, like millions of other kids in the world. I'm not different - my story is no different than theirs in many ways. But this poverty shaped me, it's shaped how I think about the world, how I approach the world. It's made me who I am. It's affected what I study and what I research, and why I'm passionate about it. Why it matters to me. Growing up in poverty, I didn't often have a house where we had no water, no electricity, no gas. You can tell a kid to care about school, but when you come home and you have no lights, it's just a different situation. It's hard, it's tough. And so, like I said, my story is not unique. Millions of kids face these trials every day. One of the things my mother and I used to do that provided us with a sense of hope, in some kind of odd way, was to go to another neighborhood and look at the houses and think about one day buying one of those houses, living there. This was a kind of groundless hope, you understand. I mean, in that it wasn't really going to happen. There was nothing in our lives to make us think that it would happen. But it gave us relief, a moment that we could dream of a different life, a different way of living. This hope, as I said, is groundless. It has no real basis. I think...
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