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Kim Moran 05/12/12 Mr. Ethridge

Google Doc Assignment: Leigh Anne Tuohy Leigh Anne Tuohy is a wealthy woman from Tennessee who grew up in a racist family. She is in the car heading home with her husband and two children. It is a cold November day, and she sees a boy walking in just shorts and a t-shirt. Her children know him from school as “Big Mike”. They stop the car and she asks him where he is going. He says he is going to basketball practice at the school gym, but she knows the school is closed for Thanksgiving.He is actually trying to go there because it is warm there and he has no place to go. They take him to the bus station a few miles away where it is at least warm and dry inside.Eventually, as she sees him around the streets she asks him if he needs a place to stay. She invites him into her home to sleep on the couch. What she did not seem to notice was the fact that he is black, and she and her family are white.She did not see a poor black kid who needed a hand out. what she saw was a homeless boy who needed a helping hand. She went against all the teachings of her own father, and against the advice of friends who asked her what she was thinking bringing this boy into her home with her 16 year old daughter. After more time has passed she invites him to stay permanently, and fixes him a room upstairs. She bought him a bed and he was amazed, he had never had his own bed before. the tuohy family adopted him as their own son and brother. He went on to finish school with good grades, and became a star football player. He is now a millionaire in his own right. He no longer lives with the Tuohy family, as he is grown and out on his own but he still keeps in close contact with them.

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