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Despite Jennings’s worries as a freshman, by the time he graduated in 1985, he had been elected by his peers to deliver the Harvard Oration at commencement.
Jennings grew up in trailer parks in rural North Carolina. Neither of his parents had completed high school, and no one in his family had attended college.
Jennings said his great uncle “Mickey” had eventually died from alcoholism, brought on because he was gay at a time when the world would not be accept him, Jennings added.
Boone said he felt that he had to “tip-toe around and separate [his] lives completely.”
“The freedom we had in the 70s might have been squelched in the 80s, when everyone was trying to go to business school,” she said.