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Nearly 90 years after she would have graduated from high school, a 103-year-old Wisconsin woman finally got her diploma.
Marie Hunt of Spring Green, Wisconsin, had to drop out of school after completing eighth grade when she found herself unable to get to her local high school,which was located six miles away from her home.
Now a resident at Meadows Assisted Living and Memory Care in Spring Green, the centenarian was presented with an honorary degree by River Valley High School, 87 years after her fellow classmates graduated.
Never too late: 103-year-old Marie Hunt received an honorary high school diploma 87 years after she would have graduated
'I was born in 1911, and there was no way that country kids six miles away could go to high school,' she said, adding that instead she stayed at home and helped to take care of her eight younger siblings.
When she expressed that she always regretted not graduating, her hospice nurse contacted the local high school to see if they could make Ms. Hunt's dreams come true.
'It's something I always wanted, and I didn't have the opportunity to go. And now, a hundred years later, here I am,' she told ABC's WKOW on her graduation day, 87 years after her classmates graduated in 1928.
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