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Her precocious path was paved with both opportunities and challenges, an early passion for language and the diverse influences of her native city. Gorman grew up near Westchester but spent the bulk of her time around the New Roads School, a socioeconomically diverse private school in Santa Monica. Her mother, Joan Wicks, teaches middle school in Watts. Shuttling among the neighborhoods gave Gorman a window onto the deep inequities that divide ZIP Codes.
“Having a mom who is a teacher had a huge impact on me,” said Gorman, who witnessed her ability to empower young people through language. Long before she began reading her own poetry aloud in grand spaces for grand occasions from the Fourth of July to the inauguration of a new president of Harvard University Gorman was falling in love, simultaneously, with the written and spoken word.
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On Sunday, the comedian shared the news on social media, quipping, self-deprecatingly, that he was eligible to receive the vaccination only “because I’m 75.” “Thank you all, and thank you science,” Martin wrote. The operation in NYC was smooth as silk (sorry about the cliché @BCDreyer!) and hosted to perfection by the US Army and National Guard. The actor, a New York resident, later explained that he had signed up online through the local.