I grew up in a one room school house divided by a curtain down the middle. The curtain divided grades 1-4 from grades 5-8. We usually had 32 to 36 children divided between all eight grades. Tommy Tucker and Connie Allen and I went through all eight grades together, occasionally another child would come for a year or two but would never stay long. In the fourth grade a new girl showed up. Her name was Susie Reno. She was sweet, kind and very pretty. I loved Susie. Whenever I could, I would go home with her after school to play. Her house looked fine from the outside but when I went in I was shocked. There was only one chair, no other furniture. My family was not at all well off, in fact we were pretty poor, but we did have furniture. They had very few toys but somehow Susie and I entertained ourselves without them.
One day Susie was not at school nor were her siblings. When I asked about her the teacher said they had moved. I was heart broken. How could they just move like that without telling anyone? How could this happen? Then I heard two adults talking about it, obviously they did not know I was close by. Susie’s family was on welfare, the county welfare paid for bus tickets for all of them to go to another county to get them off the welfare roll. Susie’s mom could choose wherever she wanted to go within the state of Kansas but where that place was is a mystery. No one would tell us, and maybe they didn’t know either, where they ended up. I often wonder about her. Where did she end up? What was her life like?
I wish I knew where she was, I would send her a quilt! Is that not what we give to those we love?
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