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Twenty years after narrowly failing high school, Tracy MacDonald has become a role model for those facing similar challenges in life. A lone parent of five children, MacDonald graduated in June after earning her missing English credit at the Queens Adult High School in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, winning a Literacy Nova Scotia bursary in the process. She now works as a substitute assistant at Queens Middle School and is writing a book about her life in hopes it will inspire other people to learn that it's never too late to get an education. Says Sonya Eddy, her teacher, "She's the perfect role model because she has every reason not to come back, but she comes back anyway, and she has this great success.... I think that she's a student that should be telling her story to other adults and encouraging them, because it's inspirational to hear."
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