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Kind of Blue

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13. Oh, wow!

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #12)

Mon Nov 12, 2018, 04:48 PM

Nov 2018

I think I've lost count of stories of our mothers' generation, naturally brilliant women who were flat out denied further education. My mom's dad stopped her in 8th grade saying "That's enough." It wasn't until we immigrated here that she got her GED in what seemed like a month, went on to nursing, then went thru a round of testing to find she had a knack for math - never needed to calculate anything. She said when it came to numbers answers just popped into her brain.

Thank you, littlemissmartypants, for relishing that you mom's lost was not in vain because of you. Yours is one BFD

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