“Three hours later, this man humiliated a black woman simply because of the color of her skin. However, he regretted it a lot. Mary Waters’ day couldn’t have gone any worse. She had just returned home from the funeral for her mother, which had left her incredibly heartbroken and feeling terribly lonely.
This was because for Mary, her mother was all that she had in the world in terms of family. Her father had left her and her mother when Mary was just a baby, so the young woman had no idea who the man who helped give her life was or where he was in the world. However, this hadn’t bothered Mary when she had been growing up because she had always had her mother to support her and give her all of the love and care that she could possibly need to have a good childhood.
Because Mary’s mother was a single parent, money was quite tight for the small family as Mary was growing up. Often, the young girl’s mother would have to prioritize food bills and rent over luxuries. But while Mary sometimes felt jealous over all of the toys and the latest clothes that her friends had, she knew that her mother was doing the best that she could to provide for her, and that was all she could ask for.
As the years went by, Mary began to show a real aptitude for school and academics. It was as if she simply understood all of the information that she was being taught with hardly any problems. It wasn’t long before she was asking for harder assignments in school simply so that she wouldn’t get bored during lessons as she found them too easy for her understanding.
Recognizing that Mary was quite a special student, the Headmaster arranged a meeting with the young girl’s mother to discuss having Mary skip a year or two. At first, the older woman wasn’t too sure. She didn’t want her daughter to feel pressured into a….Read Full Story Here..,…
