Yes, just like with my sister @sarahdandridge and me, our passion to learn English and our own language was because of the foundations that our father laid in us. He was my inspiration, and indeed, left a legacy for us, and that is, our education. He said that education and our faith and love for God were the only things that he could pass on to us.  Despite hardship and lack of material things, too, he sent us to reasonably good schools where we had teachers that encouraged and inspired us to love reading.