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Dawn Loggins Overcomes Homelessness To Attend Harvard - The Frisky
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When this young lady finds herself, in a few years, within the top 1%, no one will be able to say that SHE didn't earn it. To me, this is the story of America- the land of opportunity. Hard work does pay off. She deserves the monetary fruit that a Harvard education will bring.
(I used the shorter, newer link above to comply with BN rules. Below is the longer version, dated May 1.)
Homeless girl makes it to Harvard | north, carolina, college - Gaston Gazette
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Her troubled parents, plagued by poverty and drug abuse, had abandoned her, and Dawn was left homeless. She was forced to rely on the kindness of friends and school faculty for a place to stay. She got a job at her high school as a janitor to support herself and continued to apply herself in school. And it paid off: Loggins was accepted to Harvard University’s class of 2016. “If there is anybody at all who has a dream,” Dawn told a local TV station,”then they can definitely make it happen. There are no excuses. It depends on you and no one else.”
When this young lady finds herself, in a few years, within the top 1%, no one will be able to say that SHE didn't earn it. To me, this is the story of America- the land of opportunity. Hard work does pay off. She deserves the monetary fruit that a Harvard education will bring.
(I used the shorter, newer link above to comply with BN rules. Below is the longer version, dated May 1.)
Homeless girl makes it to Harvard | north, carolina, college - Gaston Gazette