When Misty Copeland was a teen, she, her five siblings, and their mother were living in two rooms at a motel in Gardena, California. Copeland would practice ballet on the railing outside their rooms, imagining it as her private studio. She hadn’t been back in nearly two decades — until she returned with 60 Minutes in 2015. https://cbsn.ws/4hnxrZH | 60 Minutes
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When Misty Copeland was a teen, she, her five siblings, and their mother were living in two rooms at a motel in Gardena, California. Copeland would practice ballet on the railing
60 Minutes. . When Misty Copeland was a teen, she, her five siblings, and their mother were living in two rooms at a motel in Gardena, California. Copeland would practice ballet on the railing outside their rooms, imagining it as her private studio. She hadn’t been back in nearly two decades — until she returned with 60 Minutes in 2015 ...
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