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I came home early and found my housekeeper’s three-year-old daughter standing barefoot on a stool, scrubbing one of my custom-made shirts in freezing water. Her tiny hands were red and swollen, but she refused to stop because she believed her sick mother would lose her job if the stain remained. Everyone in my house feared my temper—but when that little girl looked at me and whispered, “If Mama loses this job, we won’t have a home,” I was suddenly eight years old again.