During the next six months, I spent as much time as possible reading. My work in the restaurant was hard and heavy, but we would _61_ most of the dishes cleared away by 11:15 p.m. I often sat out near the kitchen door and read the _62_. There was an

During the next six months, I spent as much time as possible reading. My work in the restaurant was hard and heavy, but we would _61_ most of the dishes cleared away by 11:15 p.m. I often sat out near the kitchen door and read the _62_. There was an old Jewish man who _63_ to watch me trying to read that paper. I asked him one night _64_ a word meant, and he told me. I thanked him and _65_ back to my paper. He went on _66_ me for a while and then said, "Do you run across a lot of words you don't understand?" I said, “A lot---_67_ I'm just beginning to learn to read well," and he said, “I'll sit with you here and work _68_ you for a while." So at about 11 every night when he sat down for his meal, I would come out of the kitchen and sit down _69_ to him and read the paper. When I ran into a word I didn't know, he explained the _70_ of the word and gave me the pronunciation. Then he'd send me back to the sentence so I could understand the word in context.


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