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“Hello my name is Barbara Berry and I graduated from Sac State University at the age of 70 with my Bachelor’s in Political Science and I am coming back to complete my masters…
If I can do it….you can do it “
“How far you go in life
depends on your being tender
with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving, and tolerant of the
weak and the strong. Because
someday in life you will have
been all of these.”
-George Washington Carver
Five Feet of Courage
By Ruth Mitchell
I am the eighth sibling from the family of ten. My mother, Charlener Gilyard, tilled the cotton fields from sunrise till sunset in order to provide a place for myself and nine siblings to live on the plantation for a small fee, food,
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