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What Are Martha Andrews's Plans For College?
Martha Andrews,she was a good student in high school. After graduation, she found a job as a bank teller to save money for college. She liked her job because she knew her regular customers and enjoyed handling his and her business. When she was nineteen, Patrick Kelvin, another teller, and her fell in love and married. By the time she was twenty-two, she was the mother of three children. Martha's plans for college faded. As her fortieth birthday approached, Martha began thinking about going to college to study accounting; however, she had many fears. Would she remember how to study after so many years? Would the younger students be smarter than her? Would she feel out of place? Worst of all, her husband, he worried that Martha would neglect

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