AWESOME! WOMAN GOES FROM HOMELESS TO HARVARD GRADUATE

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. 51-year-old Norma Heath is proof of that.

Born in Honduras, Norma’s family moved to Boston when she was four years old.

“We moved to a Black neighborhood. And being from a different country, kids used to tease me, pick on me and beat me up,” confesses Norma. “I couldn’t speak proper english. I looked different. My hair was different. My clothing was different and kids used to pick on me.”

Four years later, the family moved to a new neighborhood.

“We moved to a white neighborhood and they didn’t accept me either,” Norma says. “That’s when the self-hatred began.”

At just 12-years-old Norma turned to drugs and alcohol. “My drug of choice was crack cocaine and marijuana. And everything that came with it: the lying, the stealing, the prostitution, I did it.”

She eventually found herself homeless.

Then trying to make ends meet, Norma got a job, but then was dealt another blow…

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