english: It was a bargain that helped ensure I had a place to stay and food to eat; a bargain that won me praise of teachers and kin, strangers; a bargain that paid off big time, it seemed, when one day at 17, a man from Yale showed up at my high school to recruit me for Yale's football team.
non_english: Bila je to pogodba koja je obezbeđivala da imam smeštaj i hranu; pogodba koja mi je donela pohvale nastavnika i rodbine, stranaca; pogodba koja se isplatila uveliko, kako se činilo, kada se jednog dana u mojoj 17. godini čovek sa Jejla pojavio u mojoj srednjoj školi da me vrbuje za fudbalsku ekipu sa Jejla.