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Katherine Dawkins, 79, Earns GED

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First Posted: 06/13/11 02:03 PM ET Updated: 08/10/11 06:12 AM ET

Detroit Free Press:

Katherine Dawkins is celebrating a week of graduations.

A great-great-grandniece graduated from high school last Sunday. Her great-granddaughter graduated from high school on Tuesday.

Read the whole story: Detroit Free Press

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10:58 PM on 06/13/2011
And she has advice for young teens contemplating their future path.

"You can go as far as you can go if you keep God in front of you,"

So true! What a wise, resilient, determined woman! I'm so glad her dream of graduating finally came true for her!