I’m from a very small rural town, beyond a small town, outside of Buffalo (burrr…) New York
We had one (yes – one) stop light in town, lot’s of cows and grapes and not much else…There were 61 kids in my graduating class.You knew everyone, and everyone knew you.
I may have only been a very poor small-town girl in a trailer park but I had VERY BIG DREAMS! My Mother constantly told me to, “make something of yourself.”I knew that education was my only way out of the cycle of poverty. Determined to go as far as I could,as fast as I could, I went to college in Boston.


