I grew up with the typical Catholic upbringing back when the nuns could still hit you if you didn’t shut up and keep still. Maybe that’s why I’m good at being a statue. At least now nobody smacks me with a ruler.
My mother, daughter of immigrants, told me that when I graduated high school I had to go to college or else I’d get kicked out of the house. Then when I started college, she said I better study something that would get me a job, because she wasn’t going to support me when I was done — cut off from the family. I would have loved to have studied art or English. But no, I knew I needed a guaranteed job, so I became a nurse...
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