Life on the Streets Without God and an Education

This is a survival story of a single mother having thirteen children. The father runs off and leaves. She has no high school diploma and no college degree. After the father disappears and leaves her for dead, she gets well and picks herself up. We are born and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois.

She goes downtown and registers to take college courses, and she starts working on her GED. She gets her GED, and she completes an associate's degree in auto mechanics. Then she takes a part-time job...