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Dr. Paul Farmer worlds in constant poverty in Haiti, but his past revealed this is not a new experience for him. As a child he was constantly moving houses in different states. He started in the North and moved to Alabama then Florida and then went to Duke University. He traveled without complaint and witnessed poverty in the eyes of his own family and himself. He once lived in a trailer park and the boat Lady Gin, suffering through raging storms and seemingly endless nights of hunger. His family always pulled through and he eventually made the Warden (his father) proud of his accomplishments. He had tried to impress his father all of his life and once the Warden died, tears streamed freely at the sight of the letter of his father's pride.