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Ivy League Student Inspires Mother to Complete GED in University City

Eboni Boykin is a 2012 Normandy High School graduate of who just got the chance to be proud of one person that constantly boasts about her.

She just wrapped her first year at Columbia University in New York where she’s on full scholarship, and recently watched her mother get her GED in University City School District through the University City Adult Education and Literacy Program.

Boykin told the St. Louis Post Dispatch it’s a bigger deal than when she, herself graduated.

Click her to read the full heart-warming story on the St. Louis Post Dispatch's website.


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