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Curtis is from Conyers, Georgia. -
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In third grade, he had a teacher conference. -
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Teacher said, he is a nice buy but he has a reading problem, and needs to repeat 3rd grade. -
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Curtis decided to lie about not being able to read or write so people would not call him "dumb" or "stupid". -
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He doesn't blame the school for not helping him but he is learning the skills to lie and not be questions. -
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"If you sound smart, people will think you are smart" he watched TV/videos to get vocabulary to keep "up the scam". -
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Heavy electives and light on academics for his schedule in high school. -
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Start football player, student council member and won a cooking competition. -
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He got a scholarship for college. His whole family was happy. He was scared because he had to lie for 4 more years. -
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Halfway through sophomore year he dropped out of college. -
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He moved to California. -
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Got a job at a grocery store but he got in trouble with his boss because he can't read. -
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He wanted to open his own produce company (fruit/ vegetable) -
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Curtis didn't know he had to lower his prices and he lost austomers and his business fell -
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He would give blank checks to compares because he could not read the involces. -
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Curtis was traveling and could not read road sign or airport signs. -
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Curtis was a PSA for a program that helps people read with no judgement -
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He took literacy classes with Steve and Ginny. He felt happy to be honest about his problem -
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He does really well with the literacy program and can how read a book a week. -
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He goes back to Georgia- Starts another produce company and eventually become a food columnist. -
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He decided to become a celebrity and use his platform to reach out to the literacy community -
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He called old friend and confessed his past and the friend called news shows to share his story. -
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Published his first cookbook. -
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Curtis messed up on TV reading a teleprompter and cried on national TV. -
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People called the TV show looking for help with reading because of Curtis.