All my street smarts came from my sister Lorraine's phone calls because I was a kid at home not allowed out much because of the tough neighborhood.   

Her survival as a 20-year-old fugitive in NY City was about anything she could do to get food money. 

However, she still had some morals.  For example; one day a man offered to pay her to have sex with him in front of his frigid young wife to teach her, Lorraine said no because she felt bad for the crying wife.  She said she would rather go hungry than make his wife cry anymore.