"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

Mother, Sense, Struggle

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"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

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