“I need to be retested for school. I didn’t do it right.” Dad asked him what he meant. “I’m smart. Too smart for me to be in fifth grade. I have trouble, you see, paying attention when I know more than the teachers do. They never let me go and do homework that was in the higher grades, so I’d have to stay where I was and not do anything like I wanted.”
“So, you dumbed yourself down for the classes you were in.” He nodded. “All right. We can take care of that in the morning.”
“Are you mad at me?” Mom asked him why he’d think that. “I don’t know. The teachers at the home said I was a showoff and didn’t like it when I had the correct answer. Even when they didn’t have it right. They were forever mad at me.”
“I’m not. Not at all. I’m thrilled to death that you are smart. Now I don’t have to help you with your homework.” Abe laughed and said he’d help her. “You might have to, you know. I never got to go to school when I was made. I took college classes, but I never went to grade school or above.”
They talked about it all through lunch and on the way home. He had a lot to think about, and Abe was going to make sure that Mr. Bloom hadn’t done anything wrong by leaving them the money. He was going to make it show for something good.
At least he hoped so.
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Kathi Barton, a winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement award as well as a best-selling author on Amazon and All Romance books, lives in Nashport, Ohio, with her husband, Paul. When not creating new worlds and romance, Kathi and her husband enjoy camping and going to auctions. She can also be seen at county fairs with her husband, who is an artist and potter.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
