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Let's just get down to the question here This passage

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implies that joe graham all these childhood wass what All

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right Well let's go The paragraph Born into a theatrical

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family in seventeen seventy eight joe grimaldi was theater superstar

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who rose to national prominence eighteen oh six Playing a

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clown in the pantomime a mother goose tutored by his

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father just sepi Joe's unique comic espn developing when he

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minutes for experience on stage the age of two at

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age nine job became a family principal breadwinner He spent

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the remainder of his childhood running between performances Okay so

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what does this mean While the details in the text

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acting at the age of two and supporting his family

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age of nine help us in for that Joe had

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it pretty rough as a kid like what were you

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doing at nine So be is the answer difficult passage

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could go on into true hollywood story territory after the

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excerpt but we could only respond to what we're given

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it's fair to assume that joe had a financially challenging

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childhood but calling it unbearable is a stretch on supported

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by the evidence like that be too much it's what

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you know hollywood reporter would say well still supporting a

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family at an age when most kids can barely kick

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soccer ball is no easy task and tells us little

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joe's childhood was neither sheltered nor traditional So that's it 00:01:07.227 --> [endTime] It's b it's Difficult It's smoked

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