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The Moth Radio Hour: Live and Learn

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The Challenge of Writing an Essay for MIT

"As a woman, I was taught not to be so ambitious," she says. "I had never asked myself what I selfishly would want for myself" She almost sold her house twice before being accepted into MIT's Sloan School of Management. Her three children told her there won't be any money left for them at 64.

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