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Homeless Teenager Gets Accepted To Harvard
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Walking into the atrium of MC2 Stem High School on East 32nd Street, 18-year-old David Boone has a reserved smile on his face the size of Massachusetts. It's a good thing. He'll have plenty of time to fine tune it on the East Coast this fall at Harvard University They offered him a free ride based on his merits earned at his Cleveland school. What makes his accomplishments even more amazing is that in the last few years he had been homeless. Forced to leave his family home because of relationship problems, some stemming from gang violence in the neighborhood, Boone found food and an occasional bed with friends when he could. Some nights those just weren't being offered, so he slept on park benches until animals and neighborhood dangers led him find a nicer neighborhood near the Coventry area of Cleveland" -
Source: Cleveland News