Colored By D. L. Hatton
Smart, handsome, rich and young Gabriel thinks that the earth was made just for him. Physical exertions are limited to emptying the waste paper basket and shooting a basketball. An elite private school has educated him in the finer things of life and he expects to go right to the top in everything that he does. He dreams of the N.B.A. or if worse comes to worse he will get a M.B.A. and work for his wealthy Grandfather and settle for being merely rich instead of filthy rich and famous. For no good reason that he can see his mother announces that she has obtained a degree in education and has secured a job teaching in a rural high school on the edge of the earth. He thinks he has died and gone to hell but he learns that there are several levels of hell below what he thought was the lowest of the low. His mother gets him a job working on a ranch where he is reduced to sitting in the weeds and dirt to eat his lunch, after all, how low can a person sink? He shouldn't have asked.