Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor 2018101

feel like family, that's because they are. urat do your friends say about the fact that your mother and grandmother are here on campus with you? i they think it's pretty cool. i mean, it's not their parents so... ( laughter ) >> reporter: all three are students at the university of massachusetts lowell. mary, who they call "nana" wasn't able to go to college in her native ireland. after a battle with cancer, she tcided to enroll. >> i love the kids and it astounds me how they will "hang out" with me. ,> reporter: they do, the kids hang out with you? >> all the time. >> reporter: deirdre fell behind in school as a teenager because of health issues and college became a distant dream. >> i saw mom go back to school, ind i was still terrified, and then finally it was like, oh, my gosh, if she can do it, i can do it. c> reporter: georgina was the last to arrive. aou transferred here? >> yes, i missed my family, so i-- >> reporter: you missed these dwo? >> i did, i did miss them. >> reporter: grandmother and granddaughter, who have always been close, have even taken a ghass together.

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