Next two years were full of poverty and misery for us, but my mother Dorothy Lee, in her
late 30’s, pretty, calm slightly obese, and cent percent simpleton, never complained about
anything. After the arrival of chemical fertilizers and specialized seeds, the farmers of
Jackson County rejoiced because of the bumper crop that they received with the help of the
joint efforts of Mother Nature and chemical fertilizers. Females in the village purchased
expensive Nylon cloths from the big shops of Birmingham; some of them purchased the
standard model of Ford Fiesta which was the economic most car of that era.
The friend’s of Dorothy often told her that she should put some brain in the head of her
husband so that he can start using Chemical fertilizer. Dorothy always told them that she is
not greedy or ambitious, she is quite happy with what she has. She defended Oscar on all the
occasions, by presenting him as a visionary. The friends of Dorothy, on the other hand, felt
that Oscar is a myopic, “overconfident fool”. Dorothy always ignored those taunting voices.
Twenty-five years ago she got married to Oscar after a brief affair when Oscar helped her
father in setting up a new wood house. Dorothy can still remember, it was “love at first
sight”, his broad shoulders, and his baritone voice and to top that his manly mannerisms,
everything was magical to her.
She was unaware of the fact that it was the same case of “love at first sight” for Oscar as
well. He decided to support Dorothy’s father with an anticipation that this charity will help
him in coming a little closer to each other.
Unlike Birmingham or New York, people in Alabama love to interfere in the matters of the
other, it was the same case with Dorothy’s father. Eighty percent of Alabama’s villagers were
in favor that Oscar and Dorothy should get married. The makers of chemical fertilizers often
take resort in a glamorous advertisement where they deliberately give the message that
additional crops given by the fertilizer will help them in fighting against the evil of poverty

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