Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know you have a lot of _      in your lives right now that can make it hard to       on your schoolwork.
I get it. I know what it’s like. My father    my family when I was two years old ,and I was          by a single mom who had to work and who struggled         to pay the hills and wasn't always        to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I       having a father in my life. There were times when I was           and I felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I'm not     of, and I got in more trouble than I should .And my life could have      taken a turn for the worse.
But I was       ，I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my       .
Some of you might not have those       . Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the         that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there's not enough money to     the daily expenses. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are           you to do things that you know aren't right.
But at the end of the day,          the circumstances of your life are,         of those is an excuse for ignoring your homework or having a bad       in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your         , or dropping out of school. There's no excuse for not trying.

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