Edited sentence: " When Eugene reaches the age of 16, W.Daughter Helen becomes his primary caretaker.During his attendance at the school, Eugene develops a strong student-teacher relationship with the principal's wife, Margaret Leonard, who teaches him literature and history.Eliza begins the process of accumulating property in and around Altamont including her boarding house, called Dixieland.Eliza moves into the Dixieland house to operate and manage it.Eugene yearns to go to the University of Virginia or Princeton.Eugene's attendance at the school generates jealousy with his siblings.Eugene's relationship with brother Ben grows with tenderness and deep meaning with Eugene viewing Ben as his "guardian angel.However, Eugene spends most of his time living with his mother at Dixieland.In sixth grade Eugene participates in an essay contest and his writing is viewed as extraordinary by the proprietor/principal (Mr.Leonard approaches W.Leonard carefully nurtures and develops Eugene's remarkable talent as a gifted writer.Leonard had hoped to keep Eugene for at least one more year, but W.Leonard) of a new private school in Altamont.Leonard, "You will go where I send you or you'll go nowhere at all.and Eliza to recruit Eugene to the school for a private education.and the children continue to live in the house on Woodfin Street.decides his son has completed his secondary education and should be enrolled at the University of North Carolina.informs Eugene and Mrs.insists his son enroll at UNC and begin the process of college training to become a lawyer and ultimately a politician.is diagnosed with prostate cancer and begins a long process of treatment