Life's Laundry prompt

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Think back to an influential teacher in high school. Eleanor Johnson

Why were they the most influential in your life? She was my 7th grade teacher and saw some sort of potential in me and encouraged (bugged me) to submit my stuff to the school's annual magazine every year. I finally did when I was a senior, and was the only person with multiple entries. She died of breast cancer shortly after I graduated and joined the Navy. It happened that I was on leave, so I was able to make it to her funeral. She was a wonderful patient teacher.

What habits or ideas in your present life do you link or credit to them? She let me know I could do it, I haven't yet, but I try everyday.