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Homeless Harvard Graduate - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 10th May, 2010 - 8:13pm
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Homeless To Harvard Graduate
A very powerful and inspiring story that tells us no matter our circumstances, we can arise above all and do the best we can.
QUOTE SALT LAKE CITY -- A young woman who went from homelessness to graduating from Harvard spoke to Utah audiences Friday. Her remarkable story has a special message for parents.
As a teenager, Liz Murray lived on the streets of New York with her drug-addicted parents. Her mom died of HIV. Her life was hardly the makings of an Ivy League student, but one thing her parents did provide was a better life.
"I really didn't think that much of it. The first night, I slept on the subway," Murray recalls.
She says she ate from Dumpsters a few years before getting a Harvard scholarship. When she tells audiences around the country of her dire circumstances, she always gets the same question.
"How did I make those links in my education? And a big part of that, I have to say, was my dad," Murray says.
The one thing he did consistently was take his daughter to the library and read her books.
"He would check out stacks of books, and he never returned any of them," Murray says. "He had a few aliases at the New York Public Library; and as awful as it is, there was a benefit to me as a child."
They had books in their home, though ill-gotten, and her literacy conquered her poverty.
"Even though I was lacking in so many other resources, being able to read, I could take my exams. I could participate in class," she says. ..
As a teenager, Liz Murray lived on the streets of New York with her drug-addicted parents. Her mom died of HIV. Her life was hardly the makings of an Ivy League student, but one thing her parents did provide was a better life.
"I really didn't think that much of it. The first night, I slept on the subway," Murray recalls.
She says she ate from Dumpsters a few years before getting a Harvard scholarship. When she tells audiences around the country of her dire circumstances, she always gets the same question.
"How did I make those links in my education? And a big part of that, I have to say, was my dad," Murray says.
The one thing he did consistently was take his daughter to the library and read her books.
"He would check out stacks of books, and he never returned any of them," Murray says. "He had a few aliases at the New York Public Library; and as awful as it is, there was a benefit to me as a child."
They had books in their home, though ill-gotten, and her literacy conquered her poverty.
"Even though I was lacking in so many other resources, being able to read, I could take my exams. I could participate in class," she says. ..
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