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scholarship ['skOlqSIp], pleasure ['pleZq], reverse [rI'vWs]

Her working all those jobs and taking the overtime and taping her ankles when they swelled and putting her tips away in a jar marked alan's college fund just like one of those dopey rags-to-riches stories, yeah, yeah and telling me again and again that I had to work hard, other kids could maybe afford to play Freddy Fuckaround at school but I couldn't because she could put away her tips until doomsday cracked and there still wouldn't be enough; in the end it was going to come down to scholarships and loans if I was going to go to college and I had to go to college because it was the only way out for me... and for her. So I had worked hard, you want to believe I did, because I wasn't blind — I saw how heavy she was, I saw how much she smoked (it was her only private pleasure... her only vice, if you're one of those who must take that view), and I knew that some day our positions would reverse and I'd be the one taking care of her.