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[applause] Thank you I am so honored to be at your graduation ceremony at one of the best universities in the world To be honest, I never graduated from college myself and I have never been closer to graduating than I am now I want to tell you three stories of my life just three

stories the first story of the chain I dropped out of Reed College six months after entering but then continued to attend classes for another 18 months why did I drop out This story began before I was born my biological mother was a young unmarried graduate student decided to give me up for adoption she really wanted me to be

adopted by people with a higher education and I was supposed to be taken by the family of a certain lawyer but when I was born the lawyer and his wife suddenly decided that they wanted a girl So my future parents who were next in line got a call in the middle of the night asking We have an

unexpected child here a boy do you want they answered of course later my biological mother found out that my mother did not go to college and my father did not even finish high school I refused to sign the papers After a few months my parents managed to persuade her they promised that they would definitely

give me up That's where my life began and 17 years later I actually went to college out of naivety. I chose a very expensive college, almost like Stanford. All my poor parents' savings were going to pay for my studies after six months. I felt like it made no sense. I had no idea what I wanted to