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Pursuit of happyness tracks this happy, ragstoriches story, starting in early childhood and including gardners adult progression through a few different careers. At the age of twenty, milwaukee native chris gardner, just out of the navy, arrived in san francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Are you looking for the best chris gardner quotes on success and the pursuit of happiness. Gardner makes a cameo appearance in the film, walking past will and jaden in the final scene. Wed love you to buy this book, and hope you find this page convenient in locating a place of purchase. I have watched the film the pursuit of happyness staring will smith. Will smith gave chris gardner, the main character and author of this book a lot of justice in the character he portrayed. Chris gardner biography, net worth, son, wife, siblings.
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