![]() ![]() ![]() Now an Ivy League graduate, Liz is an international speaker who travels the world and delivers motivational speeches. She won The New York Times undergraduate scholarship and was accepted at Harvard University. She graduated with excellent grades, second in her class. Despite many difficulties, with hard work she finished the four-year course in only two years. That decision would change her life forever. When she thought about her future, she knew something needed to change. His violent mood swings and unpredictability scared Liz. Life finally hit rock bottom when her once-trustworthy boyfriend began to deal and take illegal drugs. But life went from bad to worse when she got the news that her mother had died of AIDS. Eventually Liz dropped out of school and began living on the streets. Her parents were desperately poor and addicted to drugs. This broken-hearted girl is Liz Murray, the author and protagonist of the book. ![]() They’d had such little time together before she became a memory. She missed her mother very much and longed to be in her arms again. As they moved from her forehead to lips, she remembered her mother’s embrace. Lying in bed at night, she would use her fingertips to explore the planes of her face. There was a homeless girl who often locked herself in friends’ bathrooms where she would look in the mirror all night, comparing her reflection with her mother’s. Today we will unlock the book Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard. ![]()
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