Curtis was twelve when an accident in a Midwestern mine killed his father. He wanted to quit school and go to work in the same mine. His mother wouldn t let him. She said, I ll go to work. You go to school.
School s important.
She got a job in a factory that made corsets. Five years later. Curtis never forgot the education he gave up. She also had picked family responsibility over education. I told her it was possible to study for a diploma.