Good 'ole NPR, milking it hard, fathers selling eyelashes, and aparantly N of 1 is good enough for a total refutation

"One in a group of aggravated readers would recount how she grew up poor. They couldn’t afford the newspaper, but Dad got up early and transcribed the news on the wireless so he could read it to everyone at the table. At Christmas each of the children would receive a book, which their dad had bought by selling his eyelashes to the hair-monger down the lane. In short, she is deeply insulted by the implication that the poor do not own books, when her isolated, anecdotal experience should stand as a total refutation."