Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

375 00:28:19,515 --> 00:28:23,179 I'm just going to go down and see my buddies. They'll take care of me. 376 00:28:23,352 --> 00:28:25,912 -I should come with you. -No, stay in school. 377 00:28:26,088 --> 00:28:28,921 Otherwise, they'll take you away again. Go, go, go. 378 00:28:39,635 --> 00:28:43,401 So we have nouns, verbs. Chris. 379 00:28:44,974 --> 00:28:47,170 Adjectives and prepositions. 380 00:28:47,443 --> 00:28:51,107 Who's that? Do you know who that is? 381 00:28:56,952 --> 00:28:58,886 I wasn't the smelly kid anymore. 382 00:28:59,455 --> 00:29:02,516 I'd learned to shower every day at the group home. 383 00:29:02,691 --> 00:29:06,594 And my clothes, even if they came from the thrift shop, all fit. 384 00:29:06,762 --> 00:29:09,857 But I still didn't know how to be in school. 385 00:29:10,032 --> 00:29:12,000 I still didn't know how to be normal. 386 00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:14,295 You know what I'm saying? 387 00:29:14,803 --> 00:29:16,396 Can we try to settle down? 388 00:29:17,373 --> 00:29:20,365 Chris, would you like to try diagram number 12? 389 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:21,532 No. 390 00:29:22,945 --> 00:29:24,674 Bobby? 391 00:29:33,956 --> 00:29:36,482 You find him amusing, miss-- 392 00:29:36,658 --> 00:29:39,150 -Elizabeth? -Please don't call me that. 393 00:29:39,661 --> 00:29:42,631 That's your name, according to these forms. 394 00:29:43,565 --> 00:29:45,397 Liz. Or Lizzie. 395 00:29:46,402 --> 00:29:48,393 Liz or Lizzie is a nickname. 396 00:29:50,506 --> 00:29:52,497 Are nicknames. 397 00:29:52,674 --> 00:29:56,941 -No, I'm afraid not. -Call the girl what she wants to be called. 398 00:29:57,112 --> 00:29:59,809 Elizabeth is a fine name. It's the name of a queen. 399 00:29:59,982 --> 00:30:04,510 The Elizabethan age was the age of Shakespeare. What's your problem with it? 400 00:30:06,055 --> 00:30:08,820 My mother calls me Elizabeth when she's going insane. 401 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,161 Wow, I don't want to know that. 402 00:30:15,931 --> 00:30:17,365 Liz, then. 403 00:30:17,533 --> 00:30:19,900 Bobby, the sentence? 404 00:30:22,137 --> 00:30:24,970 So where'd you go to school before this? 405 00:30:25,140 --> 00:30:26,733 I didn't. 406 00:30:27,342 --> 00:30:29,367 How'd you pull that off? 407 00:30:29,578 --> 00:30:31,637 I was in a group home. 408 00:30:31,847 --> 00:30:33,281 Was that freaky? 409 00:30:35,584 --> 00:30:38,076 -Yeah. -But you're not a freak? 410 00:30:39,221 --> 00:30:40,450 No. 411 00:30:42,458 --> 00:30:44,153 That's too bad. 412 00:30:44,393 --> 00:30:46,020 I am. 413 00:30:47,830 --> 00:30:49,628 -My birthday's coming up. -Yeah? 414 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:52,624 -When? -Oh, you'll know. 415 00:30:52,801 --> 00:30:55,566 I'm going to wear my dad's trench coat. 416 00:30:55,737 --> 00:30:59,139 I'm going to come to school with nothing on but my trench coat... 417 00:30:59,308 --> 00:31:00,935 ...and a pair of boots. 418 00:31:02,211 --> 00:31:04,646 I'm going to flash all the teachers. 419 00:31:05,314 --> 00:31:06,679 Happy birthday. 420 00:31:10,385 --> 00:31:12,285 You don't believe me? 421 00:31:14,223 --> 00:31:15,987 Yeah, I do. 422 00:31:16,558 --> 00:31:17,787 No, you don't. 423 00:31:23,332 --> 00:31:24,822 Hey, what's going on? 424 00:32:14,650 --> 00:32:17,483 Who'd you throw mud at before me? 425 00:32:18,453 --> 00:32:19,978 No one. 426 00:32:26,528 --> 00:32:27,518 This is great. 427 00:32:27,796 --> 00:32:29,230 How come you never had us over? 428 00:32:29,398 --> 00:32:32,368 My pops is kind of cranky. We have to be out by 6. 429 00:32:32,534 --> 00:32:35,868 Liz, where's the phone? They're doing another contest thingy. 430 00:32:36,038 --> 00:32:38,234 I don't know. Follow the cord. 431 00:32:38,407 --> 00:32:41,138 -You're never going to win. -You know what? Shut up. 432 00:32:41,310 --> 00:32:43,438 I gotta dial this number before I forget. 433 00:32:43,612 --> 00:32:47,378 -Did anybody get the hypotenuse? -Give it a rest. The test is in a week. 434 00:32:47,549 --> 00:32:50,450 -Can I have a piece of that chicken? -Sure. 435 00:32:52,588 --> 00:32:54,454 -Is it 6 already? -It's only 4:30. 436 00:32:58,794 --> 00:33:00,785 It's some drunk lady. 437 00:33:01,830 --> 00:33:04,265 Gross out! She puked right on the door. 438 00:33:04,533 --> 00:33:06,763 Oh, I'm going out the window. 439 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,007 Oh, God, I don't feel very good. 440 00:33:14,176 --> 00:33:15,644 Can you help me, please? 441 00:33:15,811 --> 00:33:18,712 Yeah, what happened? Come on, this way. 442 00:33:19,915 --> 00:33:21,781 Well, there she blows. 443 00:33:23,185 --> 00:33:24,846 All right, up. 444 00:33:26,888 --> 00:33:28,356 All right. 445 00:33:28,523 --> 00:33:31,493 Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. 446 00:33:32,160 --