I felt like I wasn’t going to make it,” she said. “When I t… - Liz Murray

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I felt like I wasn’t going to make it,” she said. “When I thought about my life in front of me, how I’m going to rise up to anything … it was so overwhelming.”

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Elizabeth Murray (born September 23, 1980 New York) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker. Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard (2010) was a New York Times Best Seller; Murray was accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was the basis for the television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003) shown by the Lifetime cable network.

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You don’t have to ‘wait until.’ You have something right now of value,”

I like to ask people to think about the courage it takes for someone experiencing homelessness to knock on the door, asking for service,” Murray continued. “It’s very hard. It’s very vulnerable.

“I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams and I knew that my time was now or maybe never,

I felt like I wasn’t going to make it,” she said. “When I thought about my life in front of me, how I’m going to rise up to anything … it was so over… - Liz Murray

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