brothers over this past year and a half, and i wouldn t trade that for anything. quarantine was nothing new for kristen. in august 2019 kristen was diagnosed with leukemia and spent the next eight months in the hospital. i wore masks before they were cool. i wash my hands way more than the average person. and i kept everything clean. kristin s now cancer-free and recently receive someday more welcomed news. when i got the news that i was valedictorian, it was like a giant weight lifted off of me. [ applause ] it was a goal that even before cancer that i had made. and when i was in the hospital, my doctor said, you don t have to be number one in your class, you re going through too much. and i looked at him and i said, watch me. when i was in the hospital, i told my mom when i get out of here, we re going skydiving because it s always been on my
yourself back at that age? don t wait. go for your dreams. same thing i tell my son. obviously we understand that life is precious. and don t wait. anything that you can imagine that you want to do, anything you can imagine that you want to be, put the work in to try to do that. find the individuals that will help you reach your goal. and don t say when i get older i m going to do this and that. do it now. we re in a world now that showed all of us that you can be anything that you want to be as long as you re in the right situation, you re in the right place and you have the right people around you. so don t wait, go for your dreams. from 14 to 17 i was a medium-level juvenile delinquent. so to answer your question, nothing, because everything i do and everything i ve been doing has been program. i sit down and think about i want to do this, i want to do a movie, boom, i want to be the most before you think about going out and doing something,
powerful musical performances. but first memories of a year that has tested students, the nation, and the world. it s been an incredible and unprecedented year of change in almost every way imaginable. coronavirus took away everything. school officials are especially concerned about the learning loss made worse by the pandemic. want to make a new start walk me through this broken glass i m willing to do anything right now to play. the fda has approved the pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds. i think that vaccinations are the first step to ensure our health and safety. i think we re going to make it through. i m very excited to be able to have a prom this year. i m excited to get all glammed up with my friends.
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who served. the heroes among us. and, about all that was lost. l lives were lost and livelihoods and normalcy. graduates, you will remember all of that to be sure and, you will also remember one thing you gained, one important thing, one incredible thing. your high school diploma. you know exactly what it took to get here, right in the middle of your junior year, everything seems to stopped and prom was cancelled and sports were cancelled and school s plays were cancelled, you were separated from your friends and your support network for more than a year. you kept going to class even if it was online. you kept studying, you kept striving and you made it to this