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...foster care, his family disintegrated. He very rarely sees his birth mother or his brother Frankie. His father is dead. Homer, at 20, is a father himself, of an infant girl, and he says he's worried about keeping his own family together. He hopes to get his GED and maybe even graduate from a community college. But technically, he was a ward of the state until he turned 21 last week, when he was released. With so many bad things behind him, Homer says, there is only one good thing about his long trip through foster care: "Getting...
...Dropping out at 17, Rodriguez earned her GED and spent a full year "without any direction," composing poetry and short stories before deciding to write screenplays. Figuring "the best way to learn about movies was to become an actress," she fell for an old showbiz scam, signing up with a talent agency that charged hundreds of dollars for publicity pictures and then sent her on open casting calls advertised in Backstage...
...People cannot pay the rent with a GED course, with a library pass, with a museum pass," she said, referring to Harvard's plan to expand access to job training and campus facilities...
...arthritis, dreams of going to California, getting his GED and becoming a small motor repairer...
...worth sharing. Here is the fourth missive; others will be posted as they arrive. I just got myself dropped. As in push-ups. As in on the floor of the drill sergeant's office while the afternoon football game - oh, the outside world! - murmured off to the left. "Ged down dere," he drawled in his Philippines twang, and we did, me and my bunkmate, the one who'd gotten us in trouble in the first place. The one I'd insisted on joining for the fun of it. To see what it was like to get dropped, or burned...