A daughter praises the strength of her extraordinary mother who was not supposed to survive an unknown illness at birth; yet, she not only survived, she went on to overcome tremendous, almost insurmountable odds, including, but not limited to a childhood of extreme poverty, abuse, child labor, alcoholic parents, the Great Depression, sharecropping with devious and unscrupulous landowners as well as the racism typical of the Jim Crow South, all to realize her dream of a better life. To escape the abuse of her father, who shot at her when she was fifteen, she dropped out of school and married...