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...Kominsky Crumb deals with her mother, called Blabette in the book...
...When my mother first arrived at Harvard in 1972, she brought with her a thick Boston accent—a product of her upbringing in working class Framingham. Only a few weeks into school, she drummed up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor responded by mockingly mimicking her accent. Humiliated by this degrading experience, she self-consciously introduced the letter “r” into her vernacular...
...Wilson's mother Juannessa Bennett said her son was willing to fight for his freedom - and to be free of the child molester label - even at the risk of having to serve all 10 years. "I mean what kind of chance would he have in life if he came out of prison as a sex offender for the rest of his life?" said Bennett, a single mother who works as a bartender and raises Wilson's 8-year-old sister. "I don't have the kind of money to set him up in his own business or anything like that...
...math. Now he is in the 9th grade with the hope that he can convince authorities to let him stay at Foothill until he is 21 and earn his GED before he is transferred to an adult facility. "I'm getting all A's in my classes, but my mother doesn't believe that I can read," he says. "I'm excited...
...Jose Chavarria, 19, is looking forward to the open house and a chance to see his mother and 2-year-old daughter, who are planning to travel 200 miles from their home in Roswell (many of the parents live equally long distances from the school). When he was 17, at the time already a low-level drug dealer for five years, Chavarria shot and wounded a man approaching his car as he was sitting in traffic. Two weeks later, before being apprehended, he shot and killed a woman whom he and his friends feared were going to rat them...