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Tafkam Hokie

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Which brings up another point re. college costs


This whole story is long and moderately inspirational. But the super-short version is my father grew up on a tobacco farm as one of eleven kids in a five-room house. By most any modern definition, he grew up dirt-poor even though he didn't necessarily feel like it at the time

He ended up with an opportunity to go to college, which was unheard of amongst his peers.

When he broached the subject with his parents (another long story that requires knowing the personalities involved), he got their approval and they handed him a check to pay for college.

In 1958, a kid could dream of going to college, and a southside Virginia tobacco farmer with 11 kids could afford to send him. That just can't happen today, not with what college costs. That would take parents who are either quite wealthy or at least planned for the occasion for twenty years.


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Posted: 08/03/2021 at 2:44PM



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