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Curtis is from Conyers,Georgia(rural area)
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in the third grade,he had a teacher conference.
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teacher said he is nice but he has a reading problem and needs to repeat 3rd grade.
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curtis decided to lie about no being able to read or write so people would not call him ¨dumb¨or ¨stupid¨
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he doesn´tblame the school for not helping him but he is learning the skill to lie and not be questions
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¨if you sound smart people will think you are smart¨ watched TV/Videos to get vocabulary to keep ¨up the scam¨
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having electives and light on academics for his schedule in high school.
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star football player, student council memeber and won a colling competion
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He got a sehlarship 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 (1.5) 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 troble with he can´t read
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He wanted to open his own produce company (fruits/vegtables)
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He would give blank checks to companies because he could not read the invoices
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Curtis did not Know he had to lociar his prices and he lost customers and his business fell
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Curtis was traviling and could not read sigh or airport sighs
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Curtis was a PSA for a program that helps people red with no judgement
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He took literacy classes with steven and jenny. he felt happy be honest about his problem
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He does really well with the literacy progame and can now read a book a week
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He goes back to Gorgia-Stans another produce company and eventually becomes a food columnist
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He decided to become a celebrity and use his platform to reach out to be illiterate community
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He called on old friend and confessed his past and the friend called news shows to stare his story
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Published his first cookbook
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Curtis mesed up on TV reading a telaprometer and cried on national TV
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People called the TV show looking for help beacuse of curtis