book—Space Brat—and heaped praise
on me for finishing it quickly. I loved to
read, and I loved to work on math
problems with Papaw, and I loved the
way that Mom seemed to delight in
everything I did.
Mom and I bonded over other things,
especially our favorite sport: football. I
read every word I could about Joe
Montana, the greatest quarterback of all
time, watched every game, and wrote fan
mail to the 49ers and later the Chiefs,
Montana’s two teams. Mom checked out
books on football strategy from the
public library, and we built little models
of the field with construction paper and
loose change—pennies for the defense,
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