Condition three, I couldn’t eat lunch in the cafeteria. Condition two, I could not talk to other students. Condition one, I had to arrive and depart from school within five minutes of the starting and finishing bells. I want to share those conditions with you. And eventually the school relented, they would allow me to come back to school but there would be conditions.
It didn’t make any sense to me so I pushed back and I kept on pushing back. Initially I was told by my school administrators that I wouldn’t be allowed to finish high school. “In 1964 I was two weeks past my 17th birthday and a junior in high school when I gave birth to my first son first son, Jeff. Jeff recorded a short video of her commencement speech where she speaks about how she was pregnant at the age of 17 and the challenges she had to overcome to finish high school.
She was speaking at the Cambridge College 47th Commencement. Jeff’s mother, Jackie is the President and Co-Founder of the Bezos Family Foundation.
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