National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate Gary Lau made it to university this year, but as a child growing up in a troubled home environment, he did not think he would ever do well enough in school to make it to university.
The 27-year-old, who recently started on his degree studies in social work, grew up in a single-parent household after his parents divorced when he was three years old. His mother took custody of him and later had a boyfriend, but the man abused her physically and they broke up when the boy was 12.
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