Consuelo Jimenez Underwood:
I learned how to appreciate the little that I had from my dad. And it was the hottest picking tomatoes in Sacramento Valley in 110 degrees. It was hard.
And he would sing. And everybody would listen, because he had a beautiful voice. The other magic that happened in those fields in those early, early years were the book vans that came to the fields for us kids that would miss school the first two months and the last two months of the school year.
And I made a promise to myself. Because I'm getting behind. I swear I will not read fiction. I'm only going to read biography, science, real stuff, so that I can make up for the knowledge that I'm losing.
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