As Stanley’s father liked to say, “I learn from failure.” But perhaps that was part of the curse as well.
If Stanley and his father weren’t always hopeful, then it wouldn’t hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed.
Not every Stanley Yelnats has been a failure,” Stanley’s mother often pointed out,
whenever Stanley or his father became so discouraged that they actually started to believe in the curse.
The first Stanley Yelnats, Stanley’s great-grandfather, had made a fortune in the stock market.
“He couldn’t have been too unlucky.” At such times she neglected to mention the bad luck that befell the first Stanley Yelnats.
He lost his entire fortune when he was moving from New York to California. His stagecoach was robbed by the outlaw Kissin’ Kate Barlow.
If it weren’t for that, Stanley’s family would now be living in a mansion on a beach in California.
Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber and foot odor. If only, if only...
The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley’s father was trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers.
“The first person who finds a use for old sneakers,” he said, “will be a very rich man.”
It was this latest project that led to Stanley’s arrest. The bus ride became increasingly bumpy because the road was no longer paved.
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