When Keith Payne was in the fourth grade, he realized he was poor. The epiphany came to him in the cafeteria. “We had a new cashier in the line that day,” he said. “And when I got to the cashier’s desk she asked me for, I think it was $1.25. More
When Keith Payne was in the fourth grade, he realized he was poor. The epiphany came to him in the cafeteria. “We had a new cashier in the line that day,” he said. “And when I got to the cashier’s desk she asked me for, I think it was $1.25. More
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