Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True Storiestaking an evening course soon, probably in creativewriting.”Public speaking, college courses, creative writing,tutoring, TV appearances—this frightened,illiterate, “worthless” girl has traveled far. In lookingback on the cycle of abuse that ran through herfamily, and the reading problems that it created forher, Daisy feels satisfaction at what she has accomplished.“It wasn’t right that any of those thingshappened to me,” she says today. “But it wouldhave been just as wrong for me to pass them on. IfI don’t break the cycle, who will?”56