The latest Pickup Lines segment features San Antonio’s former First Lady Erika Prosper Nirenberg.

Prosper Nirenberg was born in Weslaco and was a farm worker by 5 years old, tending the fields and picking onions with her family.

“It was very tough,” she recalled. “It wasn’t just tough, but I think what it does is, as a child, it forces you to think of like, how are you going to just keep going, right?”

“So in the heat, in days you didn’t want to wake up, in wet days where you knew that your friends were having a great time at the beach and here you are in the field, it gives you a resiliency that I didn’t realize was so important to me until I got to be an adult and had my own child,” she said.

Her parents divorced when she was an infant, and to this day, Prosper Nirenberg has never me

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