“It was,” Dux said. “Mom worked there from the time she was about nineteen, and the priests and nuns loved her. When our father abandoned us all, the school staff took up a collection for us, raised almost two thousand dollars, which was a gold mine back then. That money pulled our little family through some pretty rough times, kept the heat on that winter, kept food on the table. So when it came time of us to go to middle school, the Father Superior called her into his office and offered us places for free.”“That’s amazing,” she said. “I mean, I know the Church is about charity and good deeds and all that, but that was really great of them. I’m assuming the tuition wasn’t cheap?”“Not even slightly,” Drake confirmed. “It was a really great school, really sought-after in the city, and we just strolled on in. I mean… yeah, we’d worked with Mom for six years by that point, and we’d never been paid a cent for helping her, but we didn’t care. Having us with her made her work go faster, a
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