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How Oprah Winfrey beat all odds to become a billionaire

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey’s story is indeed a true rags to riches, grass to grace tale.  

Winfrey was born in 1954 into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. (Wikipedia).       

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