I did have great teachers that saw that I loved to tell stories and saw that I loved to draw and encouraged that. And my parents encouraged that and that is probably the one lucky thing that I had growing up. I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren’t encouraged and then didn’t go anywhere with it and so they’re unhappy in their jobs as adults. And if somebody had encouraged them and someone had said, “Yeah you can do this when you grow up. This is a job that you can do,” then they would have taken that path. And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then. So, it was nice to have that encouragement. And I don’t know if you’d be interviewing me here today if it hadn’t been for those teachers.
