JT shook his head and muttered something under his breath. Mopp couldn’t exactly make it out, but he had a feeling it wasn’t complimentary to his daddy.
“Look, Billy Bob. All our kids go to college.”
“But I’m not your kid.”
JT gave him a look. “You live here, yes? You eat at our table, yes? Then you’re our kid.”
Oh! To have someone come out and say that… It made him feel more a part of this family in just the nine months he’d lived here than in the twenty years he’d lived with Momma and Daddy.
“You want to go, don’t you?” JT asked.
“More than anything, JT.” He’d always wanted to. “But my grades….” They could have been a lot better.
“You can take some tests to see where you are. If you need, there are remedial classes, and I’ll tutor you.”
“Would you help too, Mr. Cooper?”
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