she dropped out in elementary school, and because of that, she ended up working as a maid and and itter her whole life, and my brother grew up with my iandmother and my mother, and weember on april 3, 1992, got tito real packets in the mail, and these were from stanford university. publicgone through the schools of san antonio, and we said, you know what? we are going to try to apply to the best schools in the united states, and on that date, we got that acceptance letter, and a couple of weeks later, we actually got the bill. it cost $20,000 per person to be able to attend stanford university. and my mother was making less than $20,000 that year, and my grandmother was getting a few hundred dollars in a social security check, and here were those two women, birth of whom -- both of whom had worked very, very hard in their life, watching their son and grandson with enormous opportunity and wondering how in the world they would be able to pay for it, and i can tell you this. the only reason that i was able to goch my american dream to college and become a professional was because i work h