I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN Fayetteville, North Carolina, in a little community called Massey Hill. I had learned to drive at age 11 and was living with my mother in the house in which I was born. In 1948, when I was 13, my mother, aunt, and uncle started working second shift at a textile weaving plant in Red Springs, North Carolina, about 30 miles away. To save on gas, my mother would drive one week, my uncle the next.
Conveniently, my
