By: Karen Wright
Ted Klontz grew up dirt-poor on a 500-acre farm in southern Ohio in the 1940s. His family raised its own food and sold meat, eggs, and butter for cash. He had one pair of shoes and two changes of clothes, and he didn’t go to a dentist until he was 16.
So his wealthy uncle’s visits made a big impression on him-and on the rest of the family. Ted’s uncle had left Ohio and gone into construction in Florida, where he eventually became a real-estate developer. The mere fact that he could afford to fly home and rent a car at the airport drew the ire of his relations, who assumed his money came from exploiting the poor.
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