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Homeless to Harvard

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风雨哈佛路

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I loved my mother so much

She was a drug addict

She was an alcoholic

She was legally blind

She was a schizophrenic

But I never forgot that she loved me

Even if she did it

All the time

All the time

Lisa, give me the money! It's mine! God, it's mine! You freak. Give it to me! Give it to me！

Let go, mom!

I gave a hundred to you！

Just come, I gave 100 to you！to one of you！

We're forced to live on! Every month! It is ...It's...It's the same damn thing! You can put it in your arms, so we can starve!

It's mine! I didn't take it! Give it to me! Give it to me! It's mine!

We're hungry. I can’t! We need food, mom!

What did you ever do for me, huh?! I gave you life! Tell me go out to the street and sell myself for it? Huh? Do you want me to do it? I know I do it sometimes, right?

I need it.

[Monologue]I wanted that smile.Oh, god! I wanted that smile so much. I was pathetic,

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wasn't I?

Don't take the aqueduct! Mummy! She’s taking the aqueduct!

What the hell difference does it make？

She'll get mugged！

Who cares!

Dad, we'll cop her, if we can't she'll get mugged!

Always a big production!

See they fixed the light for a change.

Not easy to break them again

No, No, No. She's ok, see the water runs downhill.

There's no water

No, No. Don't you know what aqueduct is? The aqueduct carried water to New York City for like over a hundred years they did that. And they close it down, but now the ghost water right? He carried your mother along.

[Monologue] My father, you could sit down on a couch and talk to my father. You just can't talk to him for long. He knew so much. He got all the answers right on JEOPERDY. He was a genius, every answer, every time. That’s the thing. Your parents are your Gods. I look to them as an example of what I should find everywhere on the world. They paid so little attention to my needs .but then I felt that their needs were so powerful that ... It didn't make me feel hurt or angry that they didn't look into me. Because I felt ok. This just must to be the human condition to be so. And then the world came in.

You took my husband, you little bustard, I'll kill you.

No, mummy!

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I'm not your mother. I did your favor. I shouldn't have trail on you!

Help me clean up this Liz. They see this they're gonna take us, too.

NO! NO! NO! It's my house. Don’t take me！Get out! NO！Don't take！

No fasten!

What happened to the window?

She threw the ****.

Such you on fire, take me...

Come on jean

Why don't take a medication? good girl！

She takes it! She just takes too many other things on top of it...

OK OK

This place is a mess！

What happened here？

I fell down.

Oh oh oh, Jean put the knife down

All right where's the phone?

We don't have one!

This woman doesn't fit

You're kidding

You girls have choice. Clean this place up, help your mother.

How about my father？

Ignore her. She's a ... She's a feminist.

I can take you any time I want. You keep skipping school. You keep living like the

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animals.Hey hey, where are you going? Come back here. Come back. You’re gonna go to a home. Do you know what home is like? There are girls. They'll beat you dull, take

everything you have. You can't have anything! You have to clean bathrooms. You’ll work there if you don't work here.

Back up! Back up. It’s not a show! You got nothing better to do, huh?

[Monologue] Couldn't they see? Anyone could see. She was in so much pain. There were struggles so much on the surface so there if anyone cared to look. It wasn't like she was running off from being a good mother to somebody else... She just didn't have any more to give.

Oh, somebody stinks!

What is that?

[Monologue] I was always the smelly kid in class. We *** on the bucket to shower, but daddy laughed at her doing, said she had to marry a doctor she has so many expectations. I didn't have any expectations. So therefore, I guess, I stunk. And I itched from *** and it burned between my legs. My teachers were always telling not to finch it, and my underwear. I didn't know what to do about underwear. I just wore it until it fell apart.

All right! People! Thank you! Rest is over.

[Monologue] My teeth ached. I was hungry.

Settle! Thank you!

[Monologue] The teacher's words never seemed to reach me. Words just seemed... fall on the floor.

Hold me the test. There's no point that...

NO, I'll take it.

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But you've been here what? For 3 times this month?

NO, I'll take it. It doesn't look that hard.

Oh, Liz, stay here. You do smell, you know? Doesn't your mother tell you that you gonna...

NO. It's my fault. I just forget.

OK.Well, when you have shower tonight, you wanna, you wanna wash back here? Ah, I've been saving some things for you. There and here. How did you do that? You're never in school.

I read a lot.

Yeah? What do you read? Encyclopedia. The lady upstairs, Eva, she find it in the

Dumpster, the whole set ... well, except for the Erdos.If you asked me about Erdos, I would have got it wrong. I was just lucky.

Oh, Lizzy! You have to come to school. NO, I mean it. Look, it's ridiculous you're way too smart not to be here. I don't understand why don't you come?

I will.

[Monologue] How could I tell her that school made me sad? I didn't know how to talk to her. I didn't know how to talk to anyone. My house wasn't a place you could come out of and be normal.

We have to come every day. OK? If you don't, and I will call CHILD WELFARE. That’s not a threat. It's a promise.

Eva, look what I've got.

100

Yes, encyclopedia

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Good, you gotta make good marks. You don't wanna be an idiot. And you keep up now, you hear me? Now your mother's back.

My mother's back?

Well, we had a nice quiet couple of months, didn't we?

[Monologue] The only good thing about my mother being taking away to the nut house was that when she came back she was my mum again. She cooked and she cleaned more than she even to be a court sonographer. For me, that was a good quiet couple of months before the drugs came back in.

Mummy?

Lizzy.

Are you ok?

I’m OK.Pumpkin, you look real good.

Glad you're home, mummy. You’re glad you're home?

This hospital won't too bad.

It's too green, the walls. And there were bars on the windows.

I'm sorry. You had to say that, you know.

But I'm glad you're home.

Look! Look! I...I got 100! NO NO. 100 is good. 100 is perfect. Didn’t you ever get 100? I ain't go to school. I ran away too young. Don't you ever run away from home?

I won't

Liz, I'll always be here for you.

I know, mummy.

I'll always be here. ALWAYS.

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I know, mummy.

I’m sick. I'm sick. Liz, I... I have AIDS. No No They say... don't be afraid. They say... I might... they say I could live forever, OK? But I can't live here. I gotta go home.

This is home.

No, home to my pop's. I wanna take you and Lisa.

No No mom. You have to stay here.

I can't stop the drugs. And I can't do it when your daddy around.

But you'll be alone.

Liz, this is already gonna over, just pack up your things and let's go.

No you said pop's gonna beat you. You said he raped your sister.

Since what it has to be now.

No, stay here

I can't

Stay mummy!

[Monologue] Everything was falling apart. I thought if I could stay I could stop it. But if I stayed, everything would somehow stay the same.

Just open the door. It's no use. We know you're in there.

Where are your mother and sister?

They are gone.

Where's your father?

He's gotta get some food, he'll be right back.

Your teacher called. You’re still not going to school. You’re never in school. We gotta do something about this. Miss Wonder warned you, I warned you, and every one year case

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workers warned you.This's been going out for years. We all said clean up this place and go to school. Clean up and go to school. You have done neither one of them, have you? Elizabeth, have you?

No

So what we gonna do?

I don't know.

I do. You’re going into the system. I’m taking her.

But but things are better now. My daddy buys me big potatoes everyday

You're not paying the rent. You're not getting her to school.

I tell her to go. I told you to go to school. She's gotta mind of her own. She's a feminist. This is not a joking matter. Pack her suitcase. Now!

No No No

I'm sorry.

I'll go to school. Please!

This isn't working. We need an adult who's responsible.

My grandpa's responsible. My grandpa will take me. My sister's there.

Your sister goes to school.

I'll go to school, I'll go to school. Please!

Don't make a fuss. I'll talk to him. And if he'll take you. You'll be out in 24 hours. I’m sorry.

And if he won't?

You'll have time to figure out how you wanna live your life.

[Monologue] Figure out my life. Do people really do that? Do they do that while they

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are falling down into a deep dark hole? Buzzed in, locked in. It was like visiting my mother. Only I was in the crazy house now. And I didn't get out in 24 hours, I didn't get out in 24 days. No one wanted me. They just left me there.

Why don't you go to school? That’s the big problem we've got here. Why don't you go? From what I can see, you've got a discipline problem.

Liz？

Hi, pops

You get your mother. Jean, come out here. She's here.

I'm leaving for school, but I wanna see you first.

Thanks, Lisa.

Don't screw this up. We're doing OK, and don't expect too much. She's dying.

Lizzy!

Mom

[Monologue] When I think of my life. This is the time I like to think of. When I got back. When mother's mind was clear. There was no cocaine. so her schizophrenic seemed about to working. And we go to the cafe, and sit, and talk, and eat hamburgers. We were together. Even with her bad eyes, I think she could see me. Well, she could see my outline. And for a while, I had my mother again.

And we went to park.

Yeah, I remember. We used to side down that hill, remember? You put down that old card board, we pretend it was slide.

You remember that? How about the tickle monster?

Well, we screamed and laughed about that one.

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I was a good mom, wasn't I? Wasn’t I?

Yeah, mom, sure, you were fine.

Well, I'm real glad we were all together, you know. You and me and Lisa

What if dad went off drugs too? Wouldn't it be great? Maybe we could even go back to the university avenue.

Yeah..., your dad. He's in a shelter right now. I'm afraid that he lost the apartment. He can not even order the rend, so...

What about my stuff?

Got thrown out

All of it, even my encyclopedias?

Look, pumpkin, I'm really sorry, you know, they bordered the whole place. There was nothing we could do. Just, you know, crap happens, I mean. Look, you know, I gotta go around the corner and see a few friends. Just for a minute, ok? You finish your burger, and ...and I'll be right back. Just be a minute, baby.

[Monologue] So that was that. No going back. I hadn't kept anything together. I've only made things worse. If I would only go to school. If I would only... If I would only. So, that part of my life was over. I guessed the new part had begun.

Elizabeth Murray？and you're her mother？I'll take you to your class now.

Are you gonna get home ok?

Yeah, I'm gonna see my buddies, you know, they could take care of me.

Maybe I should just come with you.

You gotta stay in the school. They will take you away again, just go go.

So we have nouns, verbs. Chris? Adjective and preposition

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[Monologue] I wasn't the smelly kid any more. I've learned to shower every day at the group home. And my clothes, even if they came from the thrift shop, all fit, but I still didn't know how to be in school. I still didn't know how to be normal.

People, can we try to settle down?

Chris, would you like to try diagram No.12?

You find it amusing, Miss.

Elizabeth？

Please don't call me that.

It's your name according to these forms.

Liz or Lizzy.

Liz or Lizzy is a nick name.

Are nick names.

No, I'm afraid not.

Jesus, call the girl she wants to be called.

Elizabeth is a fine name. The name of a queen. The Elizabeth's age was the age of Shakespeare. What's your problem with it?

My mother calls me Elizabeth, when she's going insane.

Liz then.

Bobie, the sentence.

So where did you go to school before this.

I didn't

How did you ***?

I was at the group home.

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Is that freaky?

But you're not a freak

NO

It's too bad. I am. My birthday's coming up.

Yeah? When?

You'll know. I'm gonna wear my dad's ***coat. I’m gonna come to school with nothing on but my *** coat and a pair boot. From far show all the teachers. Happy Birthday. You don't believe me?

Yeah, I do.

No, you don't.

[Music] Ha Ha Ha, check it out.

Don't throw it out before me

I won't.

It's a great place, I never had so comfort before.

Pop's gonna cranky. We have to by safe, by the way.

Liz, I'm waiting for the phone, those contest things.

She never gonna win.

Ok, you know what. Shut up. I don't care. I just gotta dial his number before I forget it. Does anybody get high *** news, come on.

Bobie, you*** test's until like a week.

Hey, can I just have that chicken for lunch.

Sure

Is this already?

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Some drunken lady.

Oh, she'll drain on the door.

Oh, I'm going out the window.

I don't feel very good. Could you help me, please?

Oh, here she blows.

All right, up

I'm a good mom. I just need a hug, I want a hug.

[Monologue] She couldn't take living straight. Why should I expect her to take dying? Isn’t dying the hardest thing anyone's ever done?

Everyone’s gone.

Except you

Yeah

So where's your pos gonna sleep?

Here

Sleep with his daughter?

Oh, I don't think like that.

Yeah, but you don't know.

He did her sister, when she was real younger. She told me that.

Why her sister, not her?

I figure he did them both.

So her sister crazy, too?

Yeah, and their mother, too. That’s why that I didn't wanna come here.

You know, my mom's getting back with my dad.

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I wish my mom would.

He does stuff to my sister.

You don't have a sister.

Lucky for her.

Did you tell your mother?

Yeah, I told her.

But she left him and she cursed him out, she just gonna call the cops and now she's getting back with him.

You know, I asked her how she could do that? and she said she missed him. She missed him, Huh? I was 7 when he first stuck it in.

Chris, Chris don’t. Moving with me.

Stay here?

What's your grandfather gonna say?

He won't know. I will. We'll work it out, so I never see you. He won't get up until late from work. He's like a robot, anyway, out at

And back at six. Out

Pop, she has no place to stay.

It's not my problem. OUT!

Leave her alone. Don't...

Your mother's dying. Your piece of trash father walked out and stuck me with a lot of these. Did I ask my fellows of my age, did they? What are you doing? All right, that suits me. You end up a trash anyway, just like your parents.

So I left