BLACK PRESIDENT, CHAPTER 6. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NWCN6X. At the Coke bottling facility Rudy helps a new employee, Sal, but can't get no satisfaction. Birdie reads "The Ugly Duckling" to kids.
Thanks Steve. FYI; I based Birdie character in story on a real housekeeper in Chicago who took care of me, cooked breakfasts sometimes, and I was the complainer (age 8 or 9) about seeing white in scrambled eggs. Remember her as a good hard-working person back then, and happy to give her a "book" life, some credit she deserved.
Wow! Birdie could write a book of her own!!
Thanks Steve. FYI; I based Birdie character in story on a real housekeeper in Chicago who took care of me, cooked breakfasts sometimes, and I was the complainer (age 8 or 9) about seeing white in scrambled eggs. Remember her as a good hard-working person back then, and happy to give her a "book" life, some credit she deserved.