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So there's a girl at work who's always flirting/talking with me and toughing my hand at weird times while looking me straight in the eye (which is kind of awkward). But anyway, I want to ask her if she'd like to go somewhere nice, like this new restaurant that servers innovative food in my town.

I'm thinking about either buying her flowers first and asking her or just straight up asking her. The biggest issue is that she's married and she might already be having a date with her husband. I'm not really sure how to go about this cause she def flirts with me A LOT, but I don't know if it's just her teasing and trying to have fun throughout the workday or if she finds me attractive.

Mike Tyson and Sonny Liston both came out of poverty and despair…

Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City on June 30, 1966. Tyson's mother Virginia was described as a substance abuser who might have been a prostitute. On his birth certificate Tyson's biological father is listed as Purcell Tyson, but the man Tyson believed was his father was a pimp named Jimmy Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick abandoned the Tyson family around the time Mike was born. Mike, his brother, sister and mother lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until a move to Brownsville came from poverty when Tyson was 10 years old.

Growing up in Brownsville was…terrible. Mike described what that neighborhood was like:

“It’s bad stuff, it’s really bad stuff, people tying people up and doing bad things to ‘em over drugs and stuff. To their family members, just real bad stuff that you don’t even want to mention … Anything you can think of someone did to abuse a human being, they did it there.”

Tyson was effectively abandoned as a child, and was on his own on the streets at 13. Indeed, by 13 Tyson had been arrested 38 times, and finally, Mike was sentenced to the Tryon School for Boys, a juvenile prison, in Johnstown, New York.

Sonny Liston was whipped and used as a farm mule by his father. This would cause him to not have a good education. When he left the farm, he tried to go to school. But, he looked like an adult by 10 years old. Bullied for looking like a old man. Due to not performing well in school, he went to the mafia. Being a criminal, he gained everything he needed. He also got arrested and he enjoyed prison. The fact is that the first 10 years of his life were a nightmare. It caused mental scars that would soon lead Liston down a dark path.