Who or what had the largest impact on the person you are today?

Is there a person or event that plays or played a huge role in shaping who you are?

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My parents. Their extremely poor financial decisions. Their choice to foster kids (which was based on a need for extra income to cover what those poor decisions were leading to), and how they made me take care of those kids even though I was a kid myself.