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CBS NEWS August 20, 2015, 5:08 PM She's America's youngest female billionaire - and a dropout 134K Comments Elizabeth Holmes, made a meager living as a cocktail waitress in Hawaii, and was living out of her car with just two dollars and three cents to her name and 35K in debt. Haunted by a childhood filled with brutal and systematic physical abuse, she attempted suicide following a cocaine binge â€" but in that moment, ironically, her life changed forever by doing this. CBS News has the exclusive story about how others can do the same

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