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The story of Liz Murray, the author of The Wind and Rain on Harvard Road.
Liz Murray 1980 was born in Bronx, New York, and his parents were drug addicts. /kloc-Liz became homeless when she was 0/5 years old. During the days when she was homeless and wandering the streets, she completed four years of high school in two years, was admitted to Harvard with honors, and won the "new york Times First Class Scholarship". Liz also won the White House Project Model Award and the Fearless Award specially awarded by oprah winfrey, an American talk show queen, and was even received by former US President Bill Clinton. In 2003, Liz's story was put on the screen, and the film won three nominations for the 55th Emmy Award. Today, Liz gives speeches all over the world, inspiring people to overcome difficulties, pursue dreams, give meaning to life and realize self-worth.

Liz Murray, 1980 was born in September in Bronx, New York, USA. She has a very horrible family and her grandfather is violent. Liz's father later became a street thug and reluctantly entered a university in downtown new york to study psychology. But he dropped out of school in less than two years. Liz's mother is also an addict. Two drug addicts have two children: Liz, born in 1980, and Lisa, born in 1977. Their parents buy "painkillers" to maintain their family life, and at the same time receive relief money. In Liz's memory, the two sisters had enough food to fill their stomachs some time before each month. Parents can also be "outside the clouds." And once this period of time is over, it will be a long hunger. When they were the hungriest, the two sisters used a tube of toothpaste to eat, and at the same time they also experienced the icy feeling of toothpaste. Mom couldn't stand this starving life any longer, so she went to the bar to ask all kinds of old men for a dollar or two, or simply went to prostitution in her bathroom. At the same time, my mother's drug addiction is getting bigger and bigger. My grandmother sent a card during the holiday. A five-dollar bill was added to the greeting card as a holiday gift, but all the money was stolen by my mother to buy drugs.

Her head was covered with lice because she didn't have a chance to take a bath. In a dictation test class at school, the lice on her head accidentally fell on the test paper, and the whole classroom was boiling. She began to play truant to avoid the strange eyes of her classmates.

On the day of playing truant, she had to sleep on the subway and "sit" on the other side from the terminal on one side of the city. "If I don't sleep on the subway, I have no place to sleep."

By chance, Liz met a girl: Peggy. Peggy also lives like this. But now she has a job and shares an apartment with some friends. Liz was so envious of her that she decided to finish high school in two years.

By chance, she and her classmates visited Harvard University under the guidance of their teachers. Deeply fascinated by Harvard University, which has a strong academic atmosphere, she decided to abandon her past life of playing truant and living without a fixed place and enter Harvard.

Finally, Liz Murray, the child of the drug addict, was admitted to Harvard University with straight A's, and there was a time when she had to take care of her father who was suffering from AIDS. At this time, Liz's mother died. I didn't return to school until my father died of AIDS. Interestingly, Liz's sister Lisa also finished college and is now a teacher.

Her story has become synonymous with never giving up and striving for self-improvement.

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