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Don't blow your chance to get ahead.

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Learn to read.

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If you’d have told me four years ago
that I'd be standing up here today.

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I would have laughed.

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Back then,
I didn't have much going for me.

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But I always hoped to have the chance
to prove myself.

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And today I have.

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I'm graduating from high school.

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And there's one person here
who is responsible for that.

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She's Linda Smith.

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Four years ago,

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she taught me to read.

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This man could be a teacher,

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a banker, an architect or a pharmacist.

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He could manage a store, market
new products or sell real estate.

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In fact, this man is smart enough

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to achieve
just about anything he wants to.

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But he won't.

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He probably never will.

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Not until he learns to read.

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If you can't read, you're wasting time.

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Learn to read now.