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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"No one has the Houdini school of composition."
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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees."
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"The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital."
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"People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me."
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"The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story."
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"This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances."
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"Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support."
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"My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance."
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"I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school."
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