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Maxie Jones

"And at 15 years old, having lost my mother, not really seeing the value of an education, I was really in line to be a statistic, a high school dropout, and who knows what would've came of it. But the thing is I showed up to school every single day. And I realized that the reason I showed up was there was somebody there who was expecting to see me. And that was Mr. Goldberg. Thank you very much." - Maxie Jones | Watch the full tribute at The Moth.

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