By now, perhaps you know Cuonzo Martin grew up in a housing project known as “The Hole.” And maybe you know it was infested with drug dealers and roaches and other hazards and splotched with broken windows and boarded-up apartments.
You might also know about how his mother, Sandra, toiled at numerous jobs to provide for her four children. And how even without owning a car she occasionally took them via buses to gorgeous homes for sale in affluent St. Louis suburbs.
“‘I just want you to see what you can have,’ ” she would tell them, stressing the hard work it would take.