money to buy the pencils to go take the test." 26 They bought the pencils, took the test and "both scored 27 really high," Linda says. Marta received a four-year 28 scholarship to the University of Nebraska, was accepted 29 into medical school and became an OB-GYN. Linda, who 30 works for the U.S. Postal Service as a labor relations 31 specialist, eventually earned a degree in business 32 management. 33 Linda says she knew her mother took pride in her 34 children's academic work. She would always post their 35 grades on the refrigerator while they were growing up, 36 Linda says, "and if we got straight A's, they were on the 37 Notes: refrigerator until the next time we got a report card." 38 But Linda didn't realize just how much her mother 39 treasured those report cards until she passed away 10 40 years ago. 41 "When she knew that she was ill, she had gone and 42 started making photo albums for us kids," Linda says. "I 43 expected to see family photos that we had of us, but I. 44 didn't expect to see the report cards in there. And I didn't 45 expect to see the little graduation announcement from 46 when we graduated from high school. Those were in our 47 photo albums, too. 48 "One thing that made her feel really good was that all 49 her kids went to school," Linda says. "She was very proud of 50
26 money to buy the pencils to go take the test." 27 They bought the pencils, took the test and "both scored 28 really high," Linda says. Marta received a four-year 29 scholarship to the University of Nebraska, was accepted 30 into medical school and became an OB-GYN. Linda, who 31 works for the U.S. Postal Service as a labor relations 32 specialist, eventually earned a degree in business 33 management. 34 Linda says she knew her mother took pride in her 35 children's academic work. She would always post their 36 grades on the refrigerator while they were growing up, 37 Linda says, "and if we got straight A's, they were on the Notes: 38 refrigerator until the next time we got a report card." 39 But Linda didn't realize just how much her mother 40 treasured those report cards until she passed away 10 41 years ago. 42 "When she knew that she was ill, she had gone and 43 started making photo albums for us kids," Linda says. "I 44 expected to see family photos that we had of us, but I. 45 didn't expect to see the report cards in there. And I didn't 46 expect to see the little graduation announcement from 47 when we graduated from high school. Those were in our 48 photo albums, too. 49 "One thing that made her feel really good was that all 50 her kids went to school," Linda says. "She was very proud of
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