Sometimes my life is a little difficult and I feel sad or negative. Then I think about my mother. She worked hard all of her life. She lived in difficult times, but she always had a positive attitude.
My mother was born in a poor family. There were six children to feed. Everyone worked. Her father worked for the railroad. Her mother washed people's clothes. My mother worked in factories. She wanted to go to college, but she also wanted to help her family. In the 1940s, she drove trucks and worked as a secretary. She saved her money and started college classes. She finished two years of college.