The Department of Education reports more than 30 million adults in the U.S. struggle with basic literacy skills. Many of them also bear the burden of keeping that fact a secret from family and friends. Uwe Keilitz, 58, shares how he spent decades hiding his illiteracy before deciding to turn his life around.
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