Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True StoriesIt wasn’t Daisy’s choice to change schools sooften. She, along with her mother, was at the mercyof her restless father. “He moved us all over thecountry looking for the pot of gold at the end ofthe rainbow,” Daisy says. “I don’t think he everfound it.” More than once, Daisy walked out ofschool at the day’s end to find her parents waitingfor her, their car packed with everything theyowned. With no warning, they were moving again.“When Mother would tell Dad that we neededto stay in one place so I could catch up in school, hewould laugh and ask, ‘Why?’” Daisy says. “Thenhe’d answer himself: ‘Girls don’t need an education.’”Daisy’s father had not wanted a daughter. Heconsidered girls “worthless” for anything but keepinghouse and having babies. He valued Daisy so littlethat when she was about a year old, he tried togive her away.Her mother was at work, and her father was sup­36