Before that, I was jitney driving at the old Giant Eagle in Homewood to take care of them. The male jitney drivers tried to force me out of there but I was determined to stay ‘til I got something better. When my sister’s children became grown I started my own family. I had my first son when I was 38 and my second son when I was 41. I put my children in Catholic school, and when Westinghouse was sold and I was laid off, I was offered a job at my kid’s school as a learning assistant.
When my children got older, my mother got Alzheimer’s, so I had to end my job at the school to take care of her with the help of my husband until she passed. I started losing my pigment at this time, then I got Meniere’s.
In 2006, I got my Associate’s from CCAC, then I got sick (a virus in my heart muscle).
The doctors said I was a miracle.
I started losing my hearing in 2010. I decided to take a leap of faith in 2011 and take back what the devil stole from me. I was accepted at Pitt. Here I am today, can’t hear good, but in good health, 70 and not on any medication. I got my degree from Pitt. How you like me now!
God is good.”
—Marie Bracy, as told to the New Pittsburgh Courier
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