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Uber Passenger Becomes Inspiration For Emotional Song

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  One great thing about being an Uber driver is the people you meet. Many love to talk and share their life stories. Once in a while that story is inspirational enough to become a song.  During a long ride a passenger named Jennifer told me her story and I couldn't shake it from my mind. Jennifer was unique. She was adopted and abused as a child but grew up in a family that believed in education. She has three advanced degrees all in completely different vocations. When I met her she had just broken free from the grip of homelessness having lost the family home in a court battle. She had many different jobs over the years and lived in almost every state in America. She was struggling with a rare form of cancer but had been wrongly diagnosed and they told her she would be dead within a year, that was eighteen years ago. Despite being disabled by disease she continued to run a non-profit legal fund for children who had been sexually assaulted.  While it would be impossible ...