Collecting garbage and eating at the age of 8.
But he got into Harvard University with a near perfect score.
Today I want to tell a true story about how reading changes destiny.
Before she was three years old.
Liz was born in a slum.
But she was still happy.
Her mother and father were healthy.
And her mother and father were healthy and doted on her.
Mother and daughter played on the grass with cardboard.
She will never forget it.
But DP changed everything.
By the time she was 8 years old.
Her mother was nearly blind from alcoholism.
She developed intermittent mental illness.
She often went crazy and robbed Liz and her sister of their social security benefits.
She would get down on her knees and beg them.
Every time she received the money.
Every time she received the money, her mother would smile a soft, sweet smile.
This smile was once the most familiar to Liz.
The smile that Liz knew best, but that she now longed for most.
Dad was so smart.
He always got the quiz show on TV right.
But he was completely incompetent.
All he does is cause trouble.
The sisters are starving every day.
They had to eat ice cubes and toothpaste.
They had to eat ice cubes and toothpaste and scavenge for food in the garbage.
The mother, because of her serious condition.
Every once in a while, the police would take them away by force.
Everyone around them looked at the family like they were monkeys.
Only Liz knew her pain.
She wanted to be a good mother, too.
She wanted to be a good mother, but there was nothing more she could give.
Liz doesn't want to go to school.
The house was filthy.
The bathtub was full of sewage.
She couldn't even take a bath.
She smelled bad.
She had lice in her hair.
She had lice in her hair and lice in her hair.
Her classmates disliked her as a smelly child.
The teachers didn't want her to take the test.
The teachers didn't want her to take the test, and they thought that she would come to school three times a month.
She couldn't understand the questions.
But Liz relied on the encyclopedia that the neighbor's wife picked up from the garbage.
Liz learns a lot from the encyclopedia she found in the neighbor's garbage.
She scored 100 on the test.
She had the potential to be a student.
The teacher admired her.
The teacher admired her and required her to come to school every day.
Otherwise, she would call the administration.
Liz is afraid to say what she really thinks.
She can't go to school every day like a normal person.
Mom is out of the hospital.
She was so thin and depressed.
When she showed her report card, she was so excited.
What was waiting for her was a bolt from the blue.
Mom had AIDS.
She had to leave her father and the house.
Otherwise, she would never be able to quit D.
She wants to take the two sisters to live with her at her grandfather's house.
But Liz knows very well that
But Liz knew very well that Grandpa had not only abused her mother's sister, but he had also abused her.
She didn't want to go to that beast.
She preferred to stay at home.
She stayed home and ate the food she found in cold water every day.
Because she never went to school.
The family was in a mess.
The social worker intervened.
She was sent to a shelter.
Before leaving, her father didn't stop her.
He just looked at her helplessly.
The shelter was full of delinquent girls.
Fights and brawls were the norm.
Liz was often bullied.
She still refused to go to school.
She stayed in this environment for seven years.
It wasn't until she was 15 years old
She was not released from the institution until she was 15.
She went to see her mother at her grandfather's house.
She still hadn't quit DP.
Her days were numbered.
The family's small apartment was repossessed because they couldn't pay the rent.
Dad was also institutionalized.
Now I can hang out with my mom on the street.
I can now hang out with my mom on the street, drink coffee and eat fast food.
It was the happiest time for Liz.
She sneaks off to her old house.
There was nothing there.
The family was completely broken up.
She was forced to say goodbye to her past.
The only place she could go now was school.
She learned to stop smelling bad in the shower.
She learns to shower and dress like a normal person.
She has met Chris, a young friend with the same family problems.
She has also moved in with her grandfather.
She takes care of her mother and
He went to school at the same time.
Once when I brought my best friend home for a sleepover.
When he brought his best friend home for a sleepover, he found out the horrible fact that his mother had also been violated by his grandfather when she was a child.
This made Chris feel the same way.
She had a monster of a father, too.
She had a beast of a father, too, and had managed to escape.
And now she's going back to her father's side.
In the heat of the moment.
She had to burn the cigarette on her hand.
Liz wants her to stay here.
Liz wanted her to stay here, but was kicked out of the house by her grandfather.
To him.
They were all trash.
No more people could be taken in.
Liz and Chris, at the age of 15.
They started living on the streets.
Sleeping in subway stations.
picking up trash.
begging on the street.
stealing food from supermarkets.
Only a few of her friends were willing to take her in.
Most of them are unfortunate people.
Day in and day out.
living in a world without hopes and dreams.
Even so.
While all her friends were smoking and drinking.
She always reads in silence.
She still misses her mother.
She would often sneak back to take care of her when Grandpa was away.
She used to sneak back to take care of her when grandpa was away.
Her body grew weaker and weaker.
She soon passed away.
Liz could only run to the roof of the building
crying helplessly in the rain.
When the burial took place.
There was no priest, no ceremony, no headstone.
Only a few people attended the funeral.
Mom was in a small wooden box.
Chris had written her name on it.
As a free burial plot.
A week later.
Mom was never to be found.
Liz lay quietly on the casket.
Remembering the past.
The cruelty of life is always overwhelming.
During her days on the streets.
Liz spent her days in a state of uncertainty and confusion.
Unwilling to open her eyes to reality.
And the death of her mother
The death of her mother became a turning point in her life.
She didn't want to end up like her mother.
She didn't want to be a fool anymore.
She wanted to go to school.
But she didn't go back to the slum school.
But instead of going back to the slum school, she applied to Charity High School by herself.
She got a good score on the provisional entrance exam.
At the interview she confessed her origins.
She had always hoped that
That her mother would get better and take care of her.
She had always hoped that her mother would get better, that she would take care of her, that the family would be together again.
But the death of her mother
But her mother's death had slapped her hard in the face.
She had never taken care of her.
Liz had taken care of her like a child.
Now that she's gone.
Now that she's gone, it's time to take care of herself.
She will live forever with the love she has for her mother.
She knows that her world is surrounded by a shell.
She knows that her world is surrounded by a shell, and that there is a better world outside of it.
She can see everyone in that world, but she can't reach it.
She can see everyone in that world, but she can't reach it.
She has to try harder and harder to
She has to try harder and harder to push herself into the world outside the shell.
So it takes a chance to climb out of this rut.
Liz's honesty and intelligence
Liz's honesty and intelligence impressed the teacher.
She was accepted on an exceptional basis.
A guardian's signature is required before admission.
Liz came to the shelter and found her crazy father.
She finally finished her studies.
Dad is actually very smart.
Always finding new and exciting ideas.
Liz's intelligence and learning were influenced by him.
But now he is suffering from the same disease as mom.
He was dying.
Liz said, "I love you, Daddy."
But her father said.
"Don't love me. It's a waste of energy.
I screwed up going to school, but you can do it.
Liz lived up to that encouragement and
Liz lived up to that encouragement and studied hard.
She studied hard and worked late into the night in the office every day on her homework.
She was 17 years old.
There's no time to waste.
There was no time to waste, no time to be lost.
She has to finish 10 courses a year.
She has to work part-time to earn a living.
She sleeps on the subway, which is open 24 hours a day, at night.
This way she always arrived at school early.
Her teachers also gave her great encouragement.
She was encouraged by her teachers to become more confident.
Chris found her again.
Liz wanted to take her to school with her.
When she arrived at school.
The teacher told her the good news.
The top ten students in the school will be sent to Boston to visit Harvard University.
She was the top student in the school.
Liz couldn't believe it.
Even her best friend, Chris, was telling her that
They were just the trash of the world.
Everyone says.
"They'll grow up to be nothing but trash.
They don't deserve to go to college.
And on the Harvard campus.
Liz saw a life so different from her own.
She began to think about what she was missing.
She fought as hard as she could.
She tried her best to keep herself from falling to the bottom of the social ladder.
What if she had tried harder?
Would she be closer to that shell?
Her teachers told her that it was an aspiration, not an impossibility.
She became determined to go to Harvard.
It wasn't an impulse.
She began to aspire to go to Harvard, not on impulse, but with all her potential.
She completed four years of classes in just two years.
In addition to her excellent grades.
I searched for scholarships from various institutions.
She found that only a scholarship from the New York Times
She found that only the New York Times scholarship would allow her to finish college.
Once again, she seized the opportunity to
She took another chance and wrote her article in four months.
On her 18th birthday.
She sent her letter.
She got an interview for a scholarship.
On that day.
She didn't even have a decent dress to wear.
She had to come and borrow her sister's coat.
She loved school, too.
But her mother sold her clothes.
She couldn't go to school.
Now she's probably going blind too.
Just like her mother.
The two sisters embrace each other.
The heartache inside is untold.
She met Chris at the door.
She was kicked out of the orphanage.
Wanting to continue wandering with Liz.
Now.
She has grown up to be an independent and confident girl.
There is a rare innocence and persistence in her.
She doesn't want to go back to the way things were.
She wants to be on an equal footing with others.
She wants to be equal to others, not inferior to them.
She went to Harvard to get a good education.
Read all the good books.
She had to succeed. She had no choice.
She had to succeed.
She got into Harvard, as she wanted to.
And got a job at the New York Times.
On the day of the award.
On the day of the award, she was asked by a reporter if she regretted her past life as a wanderer.
She replied.
"It's part of my life.
I feel lucky for that.
Because of those homeless experiences
I feel fortunate for that, because all those experiences of homelessness have left me with no sense of security.
So I was forced to look forward.
There's no way back.
I'm going to try as hard as I can.
And see what happens.
And what would you do if you could change something?
I'd give back all the luck I've had since.
I'd give back all the luck I've had since then and restore my family.
Liz's life was changed forever in this moment.
Liz's life changed forever.
She had her own apartment.
She got her own apartment, ended her life of displacement.
She got a scholarship to the New York Times.
With a near perfect grade point average.
She was accepted to Harvard University in the fall of 2000.
Then she left Harvard to care for her sick father.
She left Harvard
She left Harvard to care for her father, who was ill, and chose to study at Columbia University, which was close to her father.
After her father's death
After her father's death, she returned to Harvard in 2008
She received her master's degree in psychology
and continued her studies.
Today, in addition to school, Liz
Liz's main job is to give speeches to teenagers
She gives talks to kids about how to resist the temptation of drugs and
Inspiring them not to be intimidated by hardship.
She is not using the hardships of childhood as an excuse to go with the flow.
She went on to win numerous awards and was named one of the
She was named "America's Outstanding Young Woman of Our Time".
She was honored by the former President of the United States.
Her best friend Chris was influenced by her.
Chris, her best friend, was influenced by her to get a steady job.
They remained good friends.
Her sister was able to continue her education.
After graduating from college, she became a teacher.
It is clear that a good person
can definitely influence the surrounding environment
It is evident that a good person can influence the surrounding environment and inspire others to become better.
The film "Harvard Road", based on the true story of
The film "Harvard Road" is based on the true story of Liz Murray.
The possibilities created in the impossible.
As Keigo Higashino said.
Everyone wants to be born into a good family, but you can't choose your parents.
You have to play the cards you are dealt and try to play them well.
Liz is one of those people who lost at the starting line.
However, poverty and the shadow of her family of origin did not make her fall.
She refused to submit to her fate and
She refuses to submit to fate and succeeds with her tenacious struggle.
This tells us that
Even when living in a desperate environment
Even in a desperate situation, a person can still have hope and
There is a choice.
So the next time you feel sorry for yourself.
Please think about Liz.
The deck of cards you've been dealt.
It can't be any worse than hers.
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