Precious continues to attend the “Each One Teach One” school. She always gets to school early, because she loves it. She’s also starting to really enjoy writing poetry. Precious is also going to counseling. Her counselor, Mrs. Weiss, tells her that her mother has been calling wanting to attend a counseling session with her. Precious isn’t sure how she feels about this. After her session, she steals her file folder out of Mrs. Weiss’ office to see what it says about her. She read that she only has a 2.8 reading level, but to get into G.E.D. Classes, she’ll need at least an 8.0. She also reads some things that Mrs. Weiss told her she wouldn’t put in the file, which makes her distrust Mrs. Weiss. Precious begins going to an Incest support group. She’d never realized that this happens to so many girls. The next day, her mother attends her counseling session. Her mother tells a bunch of lies about how Precious had a great childhood, how she was cared for well, and how she had really nice clothes. Precious took the reading test again, and this time she scored 7.8 on it, so she’s close to being able to earn her G.E.D. She knows she doesn’t have many years to live because of her HIV, but she decides she’s going to keep writing poetry, and be a great mom. She will be better to Abdul than her mom ever was to her.
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