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Biology class was over, but I stayed behind until the other tenth graders had left and I was alone with the teacher. \u201cMrs. Oliver?\u201d I asked timidly. \u201cCould I see my grades for the semester?\u201d<\/p>\n

School was important to me, and Mrs. Oliver was the best teacher I\u2019d ever had<\/a>. Better than any teachers back in Oklahoma, or here in North Carolina. She\u2019d made science\u2014a subject I\u2019d always struggled with\u2014fun. When I didn\u2019t understand something she stood patiently by my desk until I did. I wanted to make her proud of me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time you asked it was an eighty-eight,\u201d she said, checking her grade book. \u201cI said you could do better\u2014and you proved me right. You brought it up to an A.\u201d I was so happy I could barely speak, but Mrs. Oliver wasn\u2019t finished. \u201cDuke University holds a summer academy,\u201d she said. \u201cI nominated you and just found out you\u2019ve been accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a split second I was on top of the world. Then reality crashed back down on top of me. \u201cMrs. Oliver, I can\u2019t go to college,\u201d I said, my cheeks heating with shame. \u201cI have two kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everybody in school knew I wasn\u2019t like them. I got up before dawn every day to take my babies to the daycare center before school. Then I picked them up on the way home. I did my homework in between changing diapers. There was no way I could make it to college. My mother had sent me to live with my father, and he predicted I\u2019d never finish high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cKim, you\u2019re college material,\u201d said Mrs. Oliver. She sounded almost surprised that I didn\u2019t agree. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to miss this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll think about it,\u201d I promised, but I already knew it was hopeless<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I left Mrs. Oliver\u2019s room, I remembered a day last year. It was near the end of ninth grade, while I was pregnant with my second child. I watched a girl in front of me in algebra class pass a note to her friend. Then I scribbled my own note. Not to another student. I had no time for friends.<\/p>\n

My note was to God: Please help,<\/em> I wrote, just as I had every day. The baby\u2019s father had abandoned me.<\/a> My father had ordered me to drop out of school. Mom was far away back in Oklahoma. There was nowhere else to turn.<\/p>\n

I headed down a quiet street and climbed the well-worn concrete steps of the little church. The same steps I\u2019d climbed every day since learning I was pregnant again. I fished my note out of my algebra book and slid it through the mail slot in the church door. It was the most logical way I could think of to get my prayer to God.<\/p>\n

As I turned to go, I noticed a sign by the door. No TRESPASSING. Strange. No trespassing at a church?<\/em> I stepped back and took a good look at the building for the first time: peeling paint, weather damaged door, weeds in the flower beds. This church was abandoned! Just like me.<\/p>\n

I ran all the way home, half-blinded by tears. All those desperate prayers I\u2019d slid through the mail slot were just lying in a heap, unread.
\nUnanswered. I\u2019d asked God for help and God wasn\u2019t even home. I was on my own.<\/p>\n

I was determined to stay in school as long as I could. With the help of a new public day care near my house, I convinced my father to let me continue after my second baby was born. I got good grades, followed all the rules. I never gave my father an excuse to make me quit. Mrs. Oliver\u2019s class was the bright spot in my life. And now she wanted me to dream an impossible dream.<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course my father laughed at the prospect of my attending a college summer program. Instead, my children and I went back to Oklahoma to live with my mother. When I graduated high school I worked two or three jobs to make ends meet. We were still only barely getting by.<\/p>\n

One evening, after the kids were in bed, I lay down on the couch and propped up my feet, sore from a long shift as a waitress. I tried to focus on the news, but my eyelids were too heavy. I\u2019ll just listen tonight,<\/em> I thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the President welcomed this year\u2019s National Teacher of the Year recipient to the White House,\u201d the announcer on the television said. \u201cMrs. Donna Oliver from Burlington, North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donna Oliver? From North Carolina?<\/em><\/p>\n

I opened my eyes and struggled to sit up. There she was. Mrs. Oliver! Shaking hands with the President! I felt a surge of pride for her. Then I heard her voice in my head. \u201cKim, you\u2019re college material.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It had been years since I\u2019d thought about school, much less college. But seeing Mrs. Oliver on TV seemed like a sign. If the Teacher of the Year said I could do more with my life, maybe I ought to listen!<\/p>\n

That fall, I enrolled in college. I worked out a deal so I could pay for it a little at a time, then got financial aid. I took morning classes while the kids were in school, getting myself there on a used 10-speed bike. I majored\u00a0in biology, which is still my very favorite subject.<\/p>\n

Sometimes in my classes\u00a0I thought back on my days in high school, writing my desperate notes to God.\u00a0Prayers I thought God couldn\u2019t hear, but that he\u2019d answered beyond the\u00a0most impossible dreams.<\/p>\n

I became a science teacher, like Mrs. Oliver. In my classes I look out for kids who need extra encouragement. I know that sometimes a teacher is more than just a teacher. Sometimes she\u2019s an angel.<\/p>\n

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