A diploma for Genevieve, 78 years later

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It was the Great Depression and your family needed you to go to work. So you dropped out of school. But you’ve always thought about going back to school or taking night classes to get the high school degree. Instead, you married, raised three children, divorced, then married again.

When you were 93, a Council on Aging outreach coordinator asked you what you’d do differently if you could live your life over again?

And so, you went back to school.

And next week, if you’re Genevieve Johnson, you’ll get your high school diploma.