It was a bargain that helped ensure I had a place to stay and food to eat; a bargain that won me praise of teachers and kin, strangers; a bargain that paid off big time, it seemed, when one day at 17, a man from Yale showed up at my high school to recruit me for Yale's football team.
Tawaran yang membantu menjamin saya punya tempat tinggal dan makanan: tawaran yang memenangkan pujian dari para guru dan kerabat bagi saya; tawaran yang kelihatannya sangat sesuai, saat suatu hari di umur 17, seorang dari Yale datang ke sekolah merekrut saya untuk tim sepak bola Yale.