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The text opens with an intimate, reflective epigraph and prologue centered on a single treasured photograph of her mother, anchoring themes of family, identity, and loss. Through vivid memories of hiding out in friends’ apartments, fear, and uncertainty about where she will sleep, the narrative frames personal resilience and later commitment. Chapter headings map a life marked by instability and eventual possibility.","Breaking Night  \nA MEMOIR OF FORGIVENESS, SURVIVAL, AND MY JOURNEY FROM HOMELESS TO HARVARD  \nLIZ MURRAY  \nThis book is dedicated to three people whose love  \nmade it possible.  \nTO EDWIN FERMIN, for the years behind us, for the years ahead of us, side-by-side. Thank you for taking care of my father when we needed you. Thank you for sharing your dreams with me and for being my family. Thank you for being my no-matter-what. When I look at all the good in my life, inside all of it, I see you.  \nTO ARTHUR FLICK, for the fishing trips, the motorcycle rides, the camping and each one of our adventures that I will always cherish. Thank you for being my Guardian Angel and my heart’s compass. You were right, Arthur, you do get to choose your family. TO ROBIN DIANE LYNN—a Trusting, Powerful and Giving woman. Robin, you are a beautiful soul and the embodiment of contribution. This world was blessed to have you in it. Because of you, so many of us are blessed still. Thank you for showing me what it looks like to stand in a commitment, come what may.  \n“Don ’t let what you cannot do interfere wCH whaJOHNouODENcan do.”  \nThose who wish to sing always  finSa sonDISH PROV.B  \n“Breaking Night”  \nURBAN SLANG FOR: staying up through the night,  \nuntil the sun rises.  \nContents  \nEpigraph  \nPrologue  \nChapter 1-University Avenue  \nChapter 2-Middle of Everything  \nChapter 3-Tsunami Weather  \nChapter 4-Unraveling  \nChapter 5-Stuck  \nChapter 6-Boys  \nChapter 7-Breaking Night  \nChapter 8-The Motels  \nChapter 9-Pearls  \nChapter 10-The Wall  \nChapter 11-The Visit(or)  \nChapter 12-Possibility  \nEpilogue  \nAcknowledgments  \nA Personal Invitation from Liz Murray  \nAbout the Author  \nPraise for Breaking Night  \nCopyright  \nPrologue  \nI HAVE JUST ONE PICTURE LEFT OF MY MOTHER. IT’S 4 × 7, BLACK-AND-WHITE , and creased in different places. In it, she is seated slightly hunched, elbows touching knees, arms carrying the weight of her back. I know very little about her life when it was taken; my only clue is written in orange marker on the back. It reads: Me in front of Mike’s on 6th St.  \n1971. Counting backward, I know that she was seventeen when it was taken, a year older than I am now. I know that Sixth Street is in Greenwich Village, though I have no idea who Mike is.  \nThe picture tells me that she was a stern-looking teenager. Her lips are pressed together in thought, offering a grimace for the camera. Framing her face, her hair dangles in beautiful wisps of black, smokelike curls. And her eyes, my favorite part, shine like two dark marbles, their movements frozen in time forever.  \nI’ve studied each feature, committing them to memory for my trips to the mirror, where I let my own wavy hair tumble down. I stand and trace similarities with the tip of my finger through the curve of each line in my face, starting with our eyes. Each pair offers the same small, rounded shape, only instead of my mother’s brown, I have Grandma’s rich yellow-green. Next, I measure the outline of our lips; thin, curvy, and identical in every way. Although we share some features, I know I’m not as pretty as she was at my age.  \nIn my years with nowhere to live, behind the locked bathroom doors in different friends’ apartments, I’ve secretly played this game in the mirror throughout all hours of the night. Tucked in by their parents, my friends sleep while images of my mother’s graceful movements dance throughout my mind. I spend these hours in front of their bathroom mirrors, my bare feet cooled by gridded tiles, palms pressed on the sink’s edge to support my weight.  \nI stand there fantasizing until the first blue hints of dawn strain through the frosted bathroom glass and birds announce themselves, chirping their morning songs. If I’m at Jamie’s house, this is just the time to slip onto the couch before her mother’s alarm beeps her  \nawake, sending her to the bathroom. 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