Breaking Night（风雨哈佛路小说英文版）.pdf

Breaking Night
A MEMOIR OF FORGIVENESS ,
SURVIVAL, AND MY JOURNEY FROM
HOMELESS TO HARVARD
LIZ MURRAY


This book is dedicated to three people whose love made it EDWIN FERMIN, for the
years behind us, for the years ahead of us, side-by-side. Thank you for taking care of my father
when we needed you. Thank you for sharing your dreams with me and for being my family.
Thank you for being my no-matter-what. When I look at all the good in my life, inside all of it, I
see ARTHUR FLICK, for the fishing trips, the motorcycle rides, the camping and each
one of our adventures that I will always cherish. Thank you for being my Guardian Angel and my
heart'pass. You were right, Arthur, you do get to choose your ROBIN DIANE
LYNN--a Trusting, Powerful and Giving woman. Robin, you are a beautiful soul and the
embodiment of contribution. This world was blessed to have you in it. Because of you, so many
of us are blessed still. Thank you for showing me what it looks like to stand in mitment,
come what may.

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." --COACH J OHN W OODEN

Those who wish to sing always find a song.--SWEDISH PROVERB

"Breaking Night"URBAN SLANG FOR:
staying up through the night,
until the sun rises.
Contents
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1 - University Avenue
Chapter 2 - Middle of Everything
Chapter 3 - Tsunami Weather
Chapter 4 - Unraveling
Chapter 5 - Stuck
Chapter 6 - Boys
Chapter 7 - Breaking Night
Chapter 8 - The Motels
Chapter 9 - Pearls
Chapter 10 - The Wall
Chapter 11 - The Visit(or)
Chapter 12 - Possibility
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
A Personal Invitation from Liz Murray

About the Author
Praise for Breaking Night
Copyright


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Prologue
I HAVE JUST ONE PICTURE LEFT OF MY MOTHER. IT'S 4 x 7, BLACK-AND-
WHITE, and creased in different places. In it, she is seated slightly hunched, elbows touching
knees, arms carr