took a shine to him and told him he
should go to college. “I said, ‘What do I
need?’ He said, ‘Well, probably if you
get twenty-five dollars, I think you can
make it.’ It was 1942. Things were
better. But people still weren’t very
well off. Twenty-five dollars wasn’t
small stuff. I don’t think my mother had
ever seen twenty-five dollars. She said,
‘Well, let me see what I can do.’ A
couple of days later, she appeared. She
had found a Hungarian lady whose
husband died and left her money, and
believe it or not, she gave my mother
twenty-five dollars. Instead of keeping
it, my mother gave it to me. So here I am.
I’m sixteen years old. And I’m very
optimistic.”
darren dugan
(Darren Dugan)
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