Her College Career

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This article was talk about a twenty years old new mother and wife planned to start her college career again in September 1998. Three years ago, she gave up her studies after she graduated high school because of financial difficulties.She wanted to give "more" to her son, even she didn't know what is "more". She didn't have more time to socialize other students during the college because she needed to take care her son; however, finish the homework from classes was brought big stress to her, but her son was helping her to focus attention on her school works. Finally, she finished her college career and got a good result. Even the role of the student and the role of the parent are performed simultaneously is a challenging thing, but she still

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