Your Family Farm Was a Subsistence Farm

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Your parents were also farmers, and you've written that your childhood was one of a lot of hard work and not much money. Your family farm was a subsistence farm. Even though we were not making a lot of money, my mother decided that she wanted her children to go to college. And so starting with my oldest sister, who is now 94 years old, she managed to save enough money for tuition at langston university in the state of uclahoma.

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