"I wanted really good to my mother" "She was drug addict alcoholic" "had become almost blind was schizophrenic" "But I never forgot that I loved although even if you did" "continuously, continuously ... continuously." "Give me the money!" "Are mine!" "Are mine, the state from them to me!" "If you do not like us do not eat!" "Do not touch me, touch me not!" "Where are they, eh?" "Where are they?" "Leave me!" "Damele now!" "Give me, I said!" "I have them given to you, you have taken." "I ve data 100" "When I arrived the check I gave $ 100 to any one of you." "to keep them from, you understand?" "Those we serve to live!" "Time enough, every month the same fucking story" "If you take them you shoot them in the vein and we die of hunger!" "They are my ..." "Well I do not I have taken." "You are a liar" "Give me now, you my stuff!" "Dangerous!" "Dangerous!" "We are hungry!" "Leave me!" "Those we need to eat!" "How you did it to have, eh?" "You've given their lives." "Do you want me to go on the streets a prostituitmi E 'that eh?" "And 'why do you want?" "You know, I make the robe ..." "I need ..." "I need" "I need" "A Medina?" "It 'true, and you get to $ 15,200 at the end of the round of double jeopardy." "I wanted to see that smile," "Oh God, how I wanted it ..." "I was pathetic ..." "All'Acquedotto not go!" "Mom!" "Dad ..." "Is going all'Acquedotto." "Accidentals What difference does it make ..." "Robbery!" "Who cares!" "Help her father, does not see, robbery!" "It 'always the same old story ..." "Seen, they repaired the lampposts" "The robbers break them again" "No, quiet" "You see, your mother is sure, the water goes down ..." "There is no water" "You are wrong, you do not know what the aqueduct?" "The aqueduct brought water to New York City Well, for over 100 years" "Then they closed but now open and there is water just below what drags your mother." "My father, you could sit on the couch and speak with him for hours" "But you could not speak at length" "Hey Jane!" "He knew many things, always had the correct answers to quiz jeopardy." "He knew all the answers" "Hey, watch where you are going!" "This is the way" "Parents are of your" "I see them as an example of what that I found my long life tended so little to my needs" "and I feel that their needs was so strong that I was neither angry nor suffering that is not me interessasero" "In short, I said:" "must be the human condition that has become so" "Then came reality" "I have taken the husband Elisabeth I kill you!" "No, Mom!" "Did I understand you a favor, you are only a sick slut!" "Help me clean Liz, see if this casino take away all of us!" "No, noo!" "Outside my house!" "Do not stories!" "I do not come with you, you understand?" "Noo, noo!" "The window is broken" "I threw out the cat" "Let me stay, let me stay!" "Why not try to take your medicine?" "No, take" "Just get a little Okay" "E 'un vero schifo!" "What have you done here?" "He took a knife!" "I fell!" "Careful hoo hoo!" "Where's the phone?" "Non ce l'abbiamo." "This story must be solved and now" "You two have only one alternative:" "give a cleaner to this post and help your mother!" "Tell our father!" "No no, you are a feminist." "I can go away or send via your parents." "Continue to skip school and here is a house that looks like a pigsty!" "Where to go, come here, go back!" "Go to school, you have idea how is done?" "There are girls who beat you and that you steal everything you have!" "You can not have anything of yours!" "We do clean the bathrooms, does not work there if you do it here!" "What happened?" "Been back, been back!" "There's nothing to watch" "Mom!" "mom" "mom" "But I do not notice and yet everyone could view it who suffered so much ..." "His efforts were so visible but no one dreamed of understanding" "It's not that if you rub it or not that was a good mother was that now she no longer had anything to lose" "Fammi winds with you!" "Here's the task, I hope you've finished." "Well, take your places!" "Hey that stinks!" "But what ..." "I was always the one that stinks in the classroom" "Lisa has many benefits But Dad said that was supposed to marry a doctor if he had so many expectations on the contrary I did not have any expectations, so ..." "I scratched for lice, between the legs also mi prude" "My teachers always told me not to get excited" "My laundry ..." "I did not know what to do with the linen the bore until it is torn" "Forza ragazzi, come back to place, the interval is over." "I had bad teeth," "I was hungry ..." "The teachers are treating her not to touch me" "And 'as if those words falling on the floor" "Give me the test, it is unnecessary for you to do." "No, I want to do it." "But if you're almost never came to class!" "I want to do it ..." "does not seem difficult" "OK ..." "Liz, wait" "Do you have a bad odor, Liz, not your mother tells you to .." "No, no ..." "it is my fault because I forgot" "Well, tonight when you do shower remember to wash behind here" "I have put aside a few things" "Here ..." "And this, but how did you do?" "We've never in school" "I read a lot really, and what?" "Well Encyclopedia" "The lady of the upstairs, Eva, it was found in a box is almost complete, in short ..." "R apart from the S if the test there were questions between the R and S I have the wrong" "Oh Liz, you have to come to school OK say seriously you are too intelligent not to be here" "I do not understand why we come." "There will come." "How did a tell you that the school made me sad?" "I did not know how to speak, I did not know how to talk to anyone." "My house was not a place where you can grow up and be normal." "If too many absences will have to call the social worker and is not a threat, is a promise." "Eva, look what I got, thanks to your encyclopedia!" "Brava, you must always take votes bei!" "Un'idiota not want to be ... and keep hard, give me right now that your mother is back" "My mother has returned?" "Ah, we passed a couple of quiet months, is not it?" "The good thing that my mother had been in hospital was that when he returned was my mother again" "Cooked, slept, he began to study shorthand for the company in a while he was out of the community." "But then, the drugs appear ..." "Mom .." "mom" "Lizzy" "Are you OK?" "Yes, I'm good." "Sparrows, just six beautiful, you know?" "I am happy that you are here" ".. and you are happy?" "Well, see the hospital ... was not all that bad." "No, it's not true, the walls were high and also the bars on the windows" "I'm sorry, you know, you had to view it" "Are accustomed" "But now you are here" "Look, you see I took Mom 100" "Ma. no .." "100 is a good vote, 100 is the highest." "Do not you ever taken, Mom?" "No" "I am not going to school" "I ran that I was too young." "Do not ever run away from home, you understand?" "No, I will not" "I ..." "I will always here with you" "I know, Mom" "I will always be there ... remember" "Sure, Mom" "I am sick ... are sick ... are sick, are sick ..." "I have AIDS ..." "No. .. no ..." "No, no no ..." "You do not need to be afraid" "They say that we must not be afraid because I could say that well be able to survive, you understand?" "but not here ..." "I have to go home .." "you're already home!" "No, at home by my father, and Lisa take you with me" "No, no, you have to stay here" "I have to stop drugs, with your father and I can not close" "But he will only" "Liz, your sister has already left, courage now prepare your stuff and andiamocene" "I do not want, you have you said that you beat your father, who had raped your sister" "Now this is what I do" "No, stay here" "I can not ... remains mum .." "Everything was in pieces" "I thought that if I had stayed I have stopped the destruction or at least I would be able to not make things worse." "Want to open the door?" "E 'inutile, I know you're at home." "Your mother and your sister?" "Left and your father?" "went to take food, back immediately." "We called the school, continues to do away ... never go there .." "We must do something, you understand?" "Wanda has warned, I have warned you, all the social workers have done" "We have said to you in all ways" "Please clean this place and go to school, clean and go to school, but you have not done neither one nor the other ..." "o sbaglio?" "No" "What do you mean?" "I do not know" "But I will" "Go into an institution, Come away with me" "No!" "But things are better now, dad buys me food all day" "She does not pay the rent, and not send to school" "I tell him to go, I said to you, is not it Liz?" "but you think with your head, is a silly feminist" "Are not things that joke, to prepare your suitcase ..." "now!" "No, no!" "I swear I'll go to school, please!" "Sorry, we need an adult who is responsible" "My grandfather was in charge!" "I take my grandfather!" "My sister was already by him" "But Lisa goes to school there." "We'll go too!" "I shall promise, please!" "Not piagnucolare" "Talk to your grandfather and if you take him will be out in 24 hours" "Here's the bag and if he does not?" "You will have time to think about how to live life" "Think about how to live life ... how many people really do?" "We think while sinking?" "Intercom, and you put it was like to visit my mother" "Only now I was here in hospital" "Now do you see!" "Andiamo!" "Not 24 hours after I left, and even after 24 days, nobody wanted me." "I just left them and" "Why not go to school?" "And 'This is the main problem, why do not we go?" "For me your is a problem of discipline" "Hello Liz!" "Hello grandfather" "You call your mother Hey!" "Come out, came" "Are late, but first I wanted to see you" "Thanks Lisa" "Not all messed up, we are well e. .." "you do not expect much, is dying" "Lizzy!" "Mom" "Sparrows" "When I think of my life, this is the moment that I like to remember when I went back into the life of my mother was lucid" "Do not take drugs anymore and so the drugs schizophrenia were for effect" "We went to the corner bar, sedevamo us to speak and ate hamburgher, in short, we were together even if he had weak eyes I think we could see ie could see my side dishes, and for a while I had my mother again" "I remember, slide down the hill the working board as if it were a sled" "We still remember?" "Yes" "And when you did the tickle Of course I remember, I do not remember precisely" "Yeah, I was a good mother, is not so?" "Sure Mom, you were good" "Right" "You know, I am pleased that we are all together now volio tell me, you and Lisa" "Would not it be nice if Dad stop to take drugs?" "Maybe we could go back to University Avenue" "Here, well the fact is that now your father is at a shelter for homeless" "I fear that we have lost the apartment" "I mean, he never paid the rent, and so, you know ..." "What happened to my stuff?" "Been thrown" "What?" "Even my encyclopedia?" "Feel sparrows, I am sorry to die, but they put seals on doors and windows" "In short, there was nothing we could do, is that you know, bad luck is something that happens I want to say ..." "Listen, I had almost dimanticata that I have to go go around the corner to greet friends" "We put only a minute okay?" "You finschii Meanwhile the hamburger" "I, I .. torno subito, just stay away, promised only a minute" "It was just so, no more return" "I was not able to maintain anything, I was only worsened things at least if I were going to school ... if only I had, if only I had ... and so that part of my life was over" "had begun a new hope ..." "Elisabeth Murray She is the mother?" "Yes Like" "Ah, now I accompany you in your class Thanks" "A moment" "Hello Mom Hello" "Can you get home?" "Yes, step away from their friends and I will help" "Maybe I should be with you No no, you stay in school you sennò lead away again, go, go ..." "Hello" "and then there are the nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions" "Who is that, know?" "Thank you" "I was not the girl that stinks, I had learned to get a shower every day my clothes, even if they were dell'usato me from the shop were good but still I did not know how to stay in school" "and how do I do to be accepted" "Guys, if we quiet please, Chris want to come to the blackboard?" "No" "Bobby?" "This is fun lady ..." "Elisabeth?" "Do not call me so" "And 'your name, according to these forms" "Liz or Lizzy" "Liz or Lizzy are diminutives" "They are my names" "No, I do not think so" "Damn, the name with the name you prefer!" "Elisabeth is a beautiful name, is the name of a queen, the Elizabethan era was Shakespeare" "What that against that name?" "My father calls me Elisabeth lost when your head ..." "Go to Liz" "Bobby, the phrase" "Where to go to school?" "We went" "And how did you do?" "I was in an institution" "A lunatic asylum ..." "Already but you are not crazy .." "No" "Sin, I mean" "I try my Birthday Ah si?" "And when?" "Ah, you'll see I put the water to my father" "Come to school wearing a pair of boots, the water, and under no ..." "Then open the front of the professors ..." "Happy birthday ..." "You do not believe me eh?" "But you, instead" "It is not true" "It 'a fantastic place, because you did not come before?" "My grandfather is a little weirdo By the way, we should be out at 6" "Liz, where is your phone?" "Make that TV game show Lì" "Do not ever win, Chris!" "Is to see!" "I just have to make the first that I forget" "Do you understand the theorem?" "This test is not a week before!" "Can I take a piece of bread in the fridge?" "Sure" "Hey, I'm already 6 No. 4 and a half" "E 'un'ubriacona acidente che schifo!" "He vomited on the door" "I go out the window" "I do not feel good, help me please" "Courage, come support me strength boys who suck!" "go on .." "I am a good mother, tell who is a good mother" "Courage!" "Oh my God!" "That's it, the whole six hours pulita" "Could not make a normal life, because I would have to wait due to make a normal death?" "Dying is not for everyone the hardest thing" "They left except you ..." "... already" "Where to sleep your grandfather?" "Here in bed With his daughter?" "But I do not think in that sense" "Yeah, but do not know" "Did things with the sister of my mother, so I told her" "With his sister and not her?" "perhaps he did so with both ..." "Even his sister is crazy?" "Yes, and also their mother, so do not want to come here" "My mother is about to return with my father" "I want it to do so even my" "He does things with my sister" "You do not have a sister" "Good for you, no?" "Have you told your mother?" "Yes, I told" "When he left, and she cursed him" "He said that would have called the police, and you call him" "I asked how it could do it, and she told me that the missing" "He missed ..." "I was 7 years the first time I rapes" "Chris, Chris, no!" "Come and stay with me" "What, to be here?" "Yes" "What .. what to tell your grandfather?" "I do not know him .." "We will make sure that you do not ever see insomma .." "There alzeremo fin that does not go out to go to work you know, he is very precise, leaves at eight ... and back to 6 ..." "Off!" "but not a place to stay!" "Not a problem my" "Leave me your hands!" "Your mother is dying asshole and your father is gone fit with all of you" "I lost in this old age?" "Answer!" "What do you do?" "Do as you like, both end up in hell just like your parents" "I went" "You do, take your stuff or .." "Let me go out alone?" "Who of us can predict your life not sure that there is only inside helmets and then we must do our best" "My mother was dying, my father he had gone but I believe that I had my way I would have met" "I was 15 years, I was doing .." "What is a house after all, a roof, a bed" "A place where if you did you you do not take away" "If so, then I had 15 years when I became a homeless" "You have a coin?" "Go to work" "Me something?" "Bought food" "You have some change left?" "Sometimes I had the impression that he never had a house" "Roll the dice" "Andiamo" "Hey, stop!" "At other times I knew that was my mother anywhere that was my house" "Oddio .." "but over the months she disappeared" "Liz ... si .." "But where end?" "Here I was with friends" "I have six non " "Well grandpa has beaten me and I .." "I could not stay here but sure ... your sister told me that you stopped going to school is true, but we will come back and when?" "when staral better" "all make fun of me" "Liz thinks I make fun of those of the bar, why tremble and I can not stop shaking" "I think it is the fault of too much alcohol, Mom you should stop" "Ok, ok .." "can you heal .." "I love you mom" "I love you" "is resumed with pictures" "dai, hurry!" "I arrive first!" "You are wrong, look" "Boys expect, we are after ok?" "Vado a moment a.." "Hello mom" "We made a collection she no longer believes it that you take all the fun is dead ..." "died yesterday morning" "Sometimes I feel that there is a kind of skin beneath" "I wish that those who are born in us can look through but can not pass through" "My mother was buried in 51 lot of the poor" "My mother was inside them, the strangers had put the in the enclosure was naked, scared ..." "no, had died just" "Hurry, let's go No, a moment" "What is the function, there should be a priest, is not that you use?" "When one dies, the buried, everything here" "E 'una donna ..." "And it is my mother" "There is the priest?" "Not in these cases, do not you know?" "Ah so is dead, put underground" "Priest or a priest, that mattered, if you had gone, and perhaps had already begun to rot" "I'm sorry and I had to believe that he had found Peace" "Come with us?" "Why do not you leave?" "Hey, wait" "Ok .." "So I leave here" "Listen, the fact is that I can not I .. non ce la faccio più ..." "and then I leave here" "Where?" "In an institution" "In a mental hospital .." "You know Lizzy, this is here, this is the lunatic asylum!" "Come with me" "Ok, see you around" "People died, things are mixed up everything that is apparently so solid becomes devoid of meaning" "there remain only gestures we do gestures in the air, this is what remains" "I remember racing to my mother in the crowd," "I felt the warmth of his arms around me, when I was little, when she was good but it was so long ago, maybe it happened once" "I was betrayed perhaps a hundred times but it does not matter, I have never been good at keeping accounts them we choose our memories" "Sign out of them!" "Where do you put the tombstone?" "No plaque, no space" "Time a week and there would have been more track her but that mattered, that was not the reality, the reality is only in our hearts" "She lived in my heart, but I am not living anywhere, I was alone in the world" "You have 16 years and the third media and you are a prisoner of a spiral all sinks in worst place you have ever dreamed" "There is nothing inside of you, you've exhausted every possible to be accepted and all those who believe in you you set them repinti" "Eva?" "I do not want to be an idiot, I want to go to school" "Yes Hello, I am Liz Murray, I have an appointment at 9 and a half, 10 are the" "Sorry, the Underground was .." "sorry to me, but now it's too late" "The school started 2 weeks ago and we have only boys that come on time, dear" "The brochure says: broad participation Student Development of a community calendar" "I just need a chance" "You can wait to talk to Daniel, but a meeting immediately after" "I understood at that moment that I had to make a choice:" "I could surrender to what happened creandomi living a life of excuses or I could make an effort, I could make an effort and make my life better" "We'll let you know Friday." "Ok, thanks E 'stato un piacere" "Elisabeth Liz" "Liz I am sorry, but those were the last admissions" "Oh, yes, but I can speak for a moment, 30 seconds?" "You should make a request, there is a questionnaire" "E.. here I have already made Give me a chance ..." "There are no adults ever been able to give me confidence, to feel and then to give me an education .." "In short, I do not know how to talk to you, here is still" "My parents were, takes drugs, I do not want to like them, is as though I had lived their lives" "Today is different, I feel confused and I do not understand many things including why refused school and I stop at the third media" "What I see though your results were good" "I did see the last week in time for exams, that's how I was brought" "So who are intelligent, I can do it, .., I just need a chance a chance to emerge the world they were born, do you understand?" "Those who live are so empty, tired, and are left to survive" "But I know that there is an outside world that .." "which is better, you see?" "E. more developed." "And is what I want to live" "Why only now?" "My mother died of AIDS a couple of months ago and for me was ... beh ecco .." "a bad day" "I always thought it would be healed and it would be taken care of me .." "Bella nonsense .." "You have not dealt with me, I worked for her .." "was my baby hours if they have gone .." "and so I ..." "It 'time for you take care of yourself" "ce la fai to get here in time, Liz?" "Sleep here, if necessary" "Ok, you're eligible" "But others said that it would have known Friday" "Tu ci sei" "Thanks!" "He changed my life!" "Did you just enough" "You must fill out other forms Liz, the usual routine, peaceful address, telephone number hours we will have to talk to your father, even for him" "Take it here, and you can start" "Dad" "Lizzy!" "I need your help, please .." "All this is absurd, I do not understand I wanted to say, why do not you will stay here in the Bronx and maybe you will go to Kennedy eh?" "I can not do the normal school" "Why, this is not a normal school?" "Well, it is public, but it is as if it were private Already" "Dad, Dad!" "I am able to do this school" "Listen to me, I'm glad, but I can not do anything" "Yes you can, you .." "You could say that you're a trucker and who travel a lot, and so do not you will never and maybe live with your companion" "Already, a truck driver who travels, and then I have a companion buckle" "Here .." "I can not, is my mother" "Listen I need .." "only one address, you understand?" "A phone number that they can call" "Please, please, do not need to know that are homeless or call the district and I will be locked again" "Ok .." "Yes Ok" "Mr Murray I am Peter, Peter Fidelty, in fact I never married the mother of Liz" "Sit down, please" "I am very grateful that recognize My daughter, in short, here is pretty good" "And 'the beginning, but we have great ambitions" "Liz also believe, she's a feminist but perhaps this already knows you see, his mother was beautiful, looked like a movie star and she was also a kind of feminist or stuff like" "Anyway I thought it was just a little lively, while she was completely crazy" "We need to put a signature here." "Sure." "and we also provide an address and a phone number" "Yes, 3454 University Avenue" "There are a number of apartment?" "Yes, 2b 3b, 3b!" "Already 3b, right" "It 'true, we will transfer upstairs" "Telephone number?" "718 5 55 57 67 555 55 67" "Excuse me, are somewhat out of phase" "Well, all why I have things to do" "Sure, it's all" "Thanks Peter Thank you" "Can I start now?" "It 'good that you've really want to come to school, brava" "Accompany him outside" "Damn oh that is just going to go single chip?" "No, see, I found a job" "You know Liz, I remember when you were small and walked to the shops in Foren Road near the station" "How many years you had?" "8" "I am a lonely man, you know Yes" "In short, they are not a sociable person" "I have nothing to do with you, it is not a personal" "But today you came ..." "Already" "I love you oh do not do, you would not well, it is a waste of energy" "You know, when I was young me to you was the most interesting" "In short, everyone was talking only drug or sex and get enough in the evening" "You you have ever had some ideas it is thanks to you I know that there is another way of being" "Already .." "You're all right?" "Yes, I'm good, you take care of me down to the service center" "In fact they are to me my apartment everything, and this way you can come to find when you" "An apartment your ..." "Yes, you know they like to do so, I mean, hold people like me out of the dorms understand it, patients, people with AIDS here ..." "Hey Listen, there is different from when it happened to Jane, there are a lot of medicine" "I am clean, well survive" "Ok, stay healthy, I will live forever" "Continue to study, I have failed, ma tu ce la puoi fare" "The coup of Tonkin I remember the Maine Another?" "The Franco-Prussian War?" "You took Bismark Do not have taken Bismark I have taken six" "I thought that was a sandwich Bismark Ma che dici!" "Bismark Perhaps it was a rustic .." "Enough talk about food, me be hungry" "Daniel will book next year?" "Why do not lose that, they" "Books eh?" "Why we do not use textbooks?" "Someone knows?" "Too heavy Bsss they are, but it is not true" "They cost too much, the school does not have enough money Bsss yet we have not kids" "You, the new Her name is Liz!" "E 'here for a week, tries to Remember" "Liz follow, please ..." "Textbook, text ..." "book ..." "Up, open it, what you see?" "Words" "What kind of words?" "Those of" "No, no, it is important and here we have?" "Many words of other people they prefer and why?" "Why only one point of view shows us a world-dimensional" "Correct answer, here is the prize!" "Bismarck, Marx, the guy who sold me the tires that you do as a reward do not be put in the borders of his ... history, but history" "David explained better, in short, there is no official history?" "New girl, tell him what is the story" "The soria is .. we ..." "all our stories" "It 's, take the handouts, I will be in the room received if you want to talk" "Liz, this is your" "Hello new girl I have admitted and you remember my name?" "It would remind me that, but I want the other side by your side" "You are very smart Yes, you too" "I see that I have put a A Yes, it was a very good job" "How come you have given me this vote?" "Liz, if you have given to you is because you are deserved" "This is your first task in the classroom All Time eh?" "If my job goes A I want you to me the reasons" "Okay so ..." "Oh!" "What are you doing still here?" "Algebra Well, I am past the 11, I have to close" "Sorry, but those who follow courses?" "Ah, the regulatory cycles, then the program on Saturday, the evening course in French and the laboratory sciences after a 10 ..." "Now you understand why I have to look at this algebra?" "It 'great!" "I have 17 years, I do not want to get to 21 without having finished high school" "What would you do, 5 years in excess of 3?" "In 2 ..." "you should revise the mathematics" "Yeah, but so is dying!" "No. .." "that is to live" "I knew the time, the line B put us 70 minutes to do the whole race back and forth 4 times and I would be arrived at school just a little in advance" "Daniel and I would be done" "For the first time my life had a place to which to refer" "Chris?" "Chris, that joy!" "What surprise" "What are you doing here?" "I go out You are not at school I have skipped" "Why not have you tried?" "I did" "I have sought for so long just that ..." "Well, it's hard here is the sound of this place, you understand?" "Now I am free and I go to a new school, I see you" "Hey ..." "quiet courage, it's all right, let us" "The last to leave and the first to arrive?" "Well always arrive after you, Daniel are you the king of punctuality" "Well, it took me years to learn, at school I was always late" "Who are you, anyway?" "My friend Chris, my best friend" "Chris hello Hello" "I want us to be you Watch which is not a nightclub, is a serious se va bene a te, will do to you too" "What do you get in bacheca We decided to send our 10 best students on a trip to Boston" "Cool!" "We've never been?" "I've never been out of New York" "Once we were in Queens Well, there you go" "Stop it, I do not believe to be among the best 10 students" "You're right, you're not among the best, you're the best ..." "You had the votes highest of the whole school and so will you .." "Boston Fully charged" "As 5 days" "Va tutto bene?" "Yes" "It 's just that I am always been a void ..." "You are not a nullity" "The tour serves to make you think of the college" "And as a college It's not stuff for us, losing leaves" "You could come too .." "Can?" "Of course, if you be to do But to me I could not care a damn!" "And from Chris Be realistic, what do you want to be great?" "Why, they do not seem big enough?" "Chris ..." "I wanted to say after the above, is Ok Liz" "No, it is not Ok, I am a Barbona, a prostitta" "And then who cares if what I will be" "E 'fantastico Welcome to Harvard" "So, it's like you imagine it?" "Better, definitely better" "Liz, are just people" "Yes, but are not like me" "Why were not like me?" "What is that made them so different?" "The place where they were born?" "Io ce la stave putting all by not having to live as a Barbona prostitute or worse" "What if .. and if I had worked more?" "Now I was so close to the skin of the world that I could touch" "It will be hard to get here, but it is not impossible" "Since there are other scholarships?" "Yes, perhaps some" "Write about 1500 words the free market in the world and will win $ 500" "Well, I neservirebbero only 70 all years" "Ah, there was an interesting article on the New York Times, ce maybe I still here" "Here it is" "$ 12,000 Each year for 4 years!" "What should I do?" "Include a short subject that describes what do you think is the most significant academic achievement and how did you manage to overcome the pitfalls and obstacles" "I do a copy?" "I want to stand beside the people and not on the sidewalk for this feel lower than their" "I'd like to go to Harvard, have a good education e able to read all the books better" "Then I think:" "and if I were crazy?" "If you work every crumb my potential to succeed?" "I have to do, I have no choice" "Are late?" "No, it's me in advance" "I made you coffee sweetener, right?" "Right!" "Thanks" "Can I have a stamp for this?" "E 'for a scholarship New York Times!" "Not yet you have sent?" "When the term expires?" "Tomorrow" "Io te l'ho on 4 months ago, Liz!" "What do you expect?" "To arrive at today, and then to take 18 years" "E 'il tuo compleanno?" "Happy birthday!" "I do not believe there was an age limit" "I know, thanks" "Now I could tell the truth, that I was a homeless and no one could come and take me away" "Lisa" "Liz!" "Yes" "What are you doing here?" "Will I be interviewed I am a finalist for a scholarship New York Times" "But, here I am ..." "I have nothing to put me" "Would you like my clothes?" "Well, nothing showy, just ecco ... something to put on this" "Thank you" "Once Mom revenge my clothes ..." "I could not go to school" "I remember" "How cried, so I liked going to school" "But there you've never gone why give you a scholarship?" "Why are homeless I am going very well at school" "You are not a homeless, Liz, you could live here" "I could not, and you know ..." "Grandfather's fault, eh?" "I'm becoming blind as the mother" "and I have so much fear" "Liz!" "Liz, I was thrown out by with all my stuff" "They can not if you have not yet 18 years" "Were either Brooklin, I do not want to go to Brooklin!" "You must help me!" "I have an interview" "No!" "Liz!" "I gotta go!" "You can not leave your friend" "Chris!" "Lasiami do this interview, and then you can come to school with me" "I do not care!" "Not center anything with this place, and even you" "Yes." "I was" "Do you believe that people like us can come to Harvard?" "The world turns, and you are not a dot, everything goes on without you situations do not favor what you want" "The needs of others and their emergencies will always be your strongest" "I believe that people become frustrated by the harshness of life" "So spend time immersed in those frustrations they call anger" "So continue to keep eyes closed situations as a whole and all those little things who contributed to make it as" "Since my parents small I have never given much right, and this has allowed me to realize that the little things that one day would be my person" "For this I have never asked why things went in one way or another" "I understand .." "You can not say that I was happy, in fact this made me very sad, but I was aware" "but accept the because basically I have always known that day ce l'avrei fatta" "Is there anything else you want to tell us?" "I loved my mother, most of my life" "She was a drugged, was un'alcolista had become almost blind and was also schizophrenic" "But .." "I never forget that .." "I loved you" "even if you did, continuously," "continuously, continuously ..." "This scholarship for me is very important because I would not go to college without it" "Had an average of 95 out of 150 across the winning class" "He obtained and completed 5 years in excess of 2 and there is successful while a homeless" "Having lost his mother early and with the father toxic employee but it is more just that I talk you then you present the winner the sixth edition of the scholarship of the New York Times" "Liz Murray" "Now everything has changed, my life will never be the same e.." "and I do not know what else to say except thanks thank you very much" "Liz!" "Liz, how did you succeed?" "How could I not do it .." "my parents showed me the alternative" "Do not try displeasure for your child?" "Displeasure?" "Sleeping in the subway, gather food from bins garbage" "Well no, that was always my life" "I think .." "I think I have been lucky because they are deprived any sense of security and was this a spur and force them to look ahead" "I had to do it, there was no alternative so I arrived at the point where I thought:" "OK, working hard, I give you to do the straits of forces e.. we see" "Now I am about to go to college, e. .." "and the New York Times if they bear the costs" "So you were lucky ... but there is something that changes if I could do it?" "Yes back ever" "while to get my family" "Dento are still at college," "I found a job at the New York Times," "I found an apartment no longer have to pull back their lives" "no longer have to pull back their lives but I do ..." "All those I know, what I did fragments splashing away, I forget the little things" "but it's so hard to pull ahead alone" "that's why I told you so," "Why do I mention my story and now put down the burden, put ashore" "and I will go ahead" "Ciao, Mom"