"...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it."

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About Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist, best known for the memoir The Glass Castle. Her writing often draws on family history and personal experience.

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