Vegetable

This is a true story Vegetable ! I could read this word. Vegetable ! Because of Mary Lou Redd, Reading Specialist Baltimore Public Schools I was age 10, reading--- Vegetable. Prior to, I added my own words to the printed page. My stories, not Mcgraw-Hill. Mary Lou made magic. Saving children from a lifetime of ignorance, shame and lies. Vegetable! Rememberring my first steps that day, I cried, proudly... . VEGETABLE ..... all on my own. Thank you, Ms. Mary Lou.