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"We ate ice cubes because it felt like eating. We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner."
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Liz Murray“Eventually, as I was able to change my circumstances with that help, — Liz Murray
"“Eventually, as I was able to change my circumstances with that help, I went on to start a non-profit (and) began volunteering (so) that I could help (others),”"
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Liz Murray
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Elizabeth Murray is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, pub
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"I learned from that time period that, even though the past is always kind of right there, you can decide to start over with a loved one," Liz tells OWN. "I lost my mom, and we did not have enough connection at the time, and I was not going to let that happen again."
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"Like my mother, I was always saying, Ill fix my life one day. It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never,"
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"“I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams and I knew that my time was now or maybe never,"
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"I was one of those people on the streets you walk away from."
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"The fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it’s the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.”"
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