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2024 BCE
elementary school years
Curtis is form content Georgia in the third grade he had a parent teacher conference his teacher said he is nice and sweet boy but he has a reading problem so he needs to repeat the third grade. He doesn't blame the school for not helping him but he is learning the skills to lie be questioned. Curtis decided to lie about not being able to read or write so people wont call him "dumb" or "stupid" -
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adulthood
he moved to California he got a job at a grocery store but he got in trouble with his boss because he can't read he wanted to make his own produce company he would give blank checks together companies because he did not know how to read the invoices. Curtis did not know he had to lower his prices and lost customers and his bisnuess fell -
high school years
"if you sound smart" people will think you are smart he watched TV/ videos to get vocabulary to keep up with the lie. Heavy electives and light economics for his schedule in high school start football plays consoil member and won cooking copettion he got a schoolship for collage while his family was happy and he was scared he had to keep up the the lie for years halfway through sophore year 1.5 years he dropped out of collage. -
adulthood pt 2
Curtis was traveling and could not read road signs or airport signs. Curtis saw a PSA that helps people read with no judgement he took liercacy classes with Steve and Ginny he felt happy to be able to confess his his problem he goes back to Georgia state and starts another produce company for a food comunity he does well really well with the liercacy program and can now read a book in a week -
adulthood pt 3
he decided to become a celebrity and used his platform to reach out he called an old friend and confessed his past and his friend called the news show to share his story. he published his first cookbook. Curtis messed up on the reading program and cried on TV. People called the TV show because of Curtis looking for help for reading and writing