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“I expected high school to be the most terrible thing.”

Chelsea Gassoway, a student at Gateway Institute for Technology in St. Louis, Missouri, talks to her friend and fellow classmate Beatriz Diaz about what motivates her to succeed in high school.

Recorded in St. Louis, MO.

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