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Her eyes flashed angrily.

`` That's what I mean about you, Anderson '', she said.

`` You don't seem to know much about reality.

I'll tell you why I didn't go to college ; ;

I'm the oldest of six children.

My father's a policeman and makes less than seven thousand dollars a year.

There was no money for tuition, for clothes, for all the things you apparently take for granted.

Nurses' training here doesn't cost anything.

They even pay me six dollars a month.

I think it's a good deal.

I'm going to become a good nurse, and I've got two baby brothers that are going to have college if I have to work at my profession until I'm an old maid to give it to them ''.