ABSTRACT
After we settled with my grandfather, my mother found a job teaching English at North Leominster High-school, and raised Gerald and David as well as she could under the gaze of a father-in-law not attuned to the needs and ideas of little boys. I began to feel a little more independent, and admired the way my mother managed her difficulties. I joined a troop of Boy Scouts, attended a group for young men in Sunday school at my grandfather’s church, and entered school as a sophomore.
