It was full of money. She and several of her young children had been getting up very early in the morning to go out in the fields and chop cotton ​ — removing the weeds growing between the rows — ​ in order to earn enough money so that I could take the trip to New York.
او و بچه‌هایش برای مدتی هر روز صبح زود بیدار می‌شدند و در مزرعهٔ پنبه کار می‌کردند تا بتوانند پولی را که من برای سفر به نیویورک نیاز داشتم فراهم کنند .‏