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will.i.am

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

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When will.i.am was a child, he confidently told his mother he would buy her a house in the future, but she warned him not to make empty promises. He insisted that it wasn’t just a promise he might break, but a real goal he was determined to achieve.

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