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Show numbered figure in the brochure from Miss Putnam's, it had taken her breath away, and she was quite sure that no dancing career was worth spending that much money a year. It was her mother who pointed out that anyplace she went would cost money, and that it would be a shame to have to give back the scholarship. With the money the Passeys were paying on the farm each month, plus her teaching at the high school, she figured they could make it. It seemed interesting to Kim that after they discussed and talked about the figure over and over again, it didn't seem like so much. And now that she was at Miss Putnam's, it all seemed worth it. "But Mom..." she wanted to tell her her mother about the teachers-how there was a different one for each subject and how she was taking Spanish and learning all about the customs and the food and the language of a people she'd never even thought about before now. And about Mrs. Parker and her CITG class and her english class where she'd learned that you use adverbs to modify verbs and adjectives to modify nouns, but her mom wasn't listening. "Kim, I'm paying a good bundle for this phone call as it is. Maybe when you come home for vacation, we can talk more about the school." "Does that mean I might be able to come back?" "Honey, you've had a nice chance to get out and take a look around at the world, but now it's time to come back home. " 131 |