Back in Newfoundland, Holly got a job at a hotel. She says, It's bad
enough when you have to clean up your own place, but when you have to
go and clean up somebody else's dirt, you get kind of sick of it after
a while. The ball players would come in and they'd have pizza everywhere.
One day I went home and told my husband, 'I really don't think I'm going
back there, cleaning up this dirt.' That was when they were really talking
about AIDS. There used to be a lot of blood around from the ballplayers.
I was getting scared, so I said I just can't do it anymore.
"About a year and a half ago my sister came and started talking to me about
the Literacy Centre. Her boyfriend was in it. I didn't think I was going
to go in the next day, but I did."
"I didn't want to do any more cleaning homes. I didn't want to be in a hotel the rest of my life having to clean toilets. I said, 'Maybe for the next 20 years of my life I could get dressed up and go in with my nails long and be a secretary or something."
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