Sheryl Lee Ralph says she can still feel her kindergarten teacher clasping her hand.
"This young woman held my hand," she recalls to TODAY.com."This is a young white woman in Waterbury, Connecticut. I'm a child of the '60s right, and the idea that your teacher was holding you close, no matter what your color was, just spoke volumes to me."
"I can still feel it to this day," she says."I'm left handed ... and I can still feel it and see where I stood with that teacher." "I remember her very well," she says."Her name was Ms. Spencer. She was very young. She always smelled of a lovely perfume. It was probably something called 'Joy' because I remember my mother wearing that same perfume."", oh my God, I'm learning lessons. They were not easy. But do I appreciate my teachers, absolutely," she says.
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