Naomi talks about how she felt not graduating with her class.
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I was supposed to have graduated in April. May – May so I went to my, not my grad. I went to the grad of my year and like I saw some of my friends cross the stage and it was very sad. I was also very sad because I was like ‘oh that could be me but its not’ so yes I had to take 2 years off school.
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