So my mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone, traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream, to be the scientist who would cure breast cancer. When she finished school, she was supposed to return home to a traditional arranged marriage. But as fate would have it, she met my father, Donald Harris, a student from Jamaica. They fell in love and got married. And that act of self determination made my sister Maya and me growing up, we moved a lot. (04:40–04:47)
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Asserts that Kamala Harris's mother met her father, Donald Harris, who was a student from Jamaica.
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