Chicken Soup For The African American Woman's Soul (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Johnetta B. Cole “Dad,” I said, addressing the man who had given me life, divorced my mother when I was only six months old, and yet remained my father in every sense of the word for the rest of his life, “with the cost of tuition, I don’t know how Al (my husband) and I can afford to send our daughter to college.” Dad simply said, “Give her twenty dollars, and if she really wants to go, she’ll go.” I smiled, remembering my own twenty-dollar college education. I admit it sounds a little unbelievable—a college education for twenty dollars. But I knew of what he spoke. As an eighteen-year-old graduate of Canton McKinley High School,my grades gotme scholarships,which I could access only upon acceptance and admittance into a college. At first, I had dreams of Fisk, Tennessee State orHoward. Totally out of the question, but I did dream. Although I seldom asked my father formuch, beyond the emotional support, wisdom and love he freely gave, this one time I needed money, and my father was my last hope.
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