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Ben and Carson's dad left them when Ben was 8 and Curtis was 10 after their mom found out that he had another family.

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ben was at church and was listening to the story that the minister was saying about missionary doctor and he knew that he wanted to become like him one day.

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After Ben and Curtis dad left he took all the money to the point were their mom would work 3 jobs everyday to maintain her kids. she would struggle with money most of the time.

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Ben and curtis mom eventually started to visit a mental health hospital because of all the stress she carried from working day to night, non stop, and having 3 jobs

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Ben , mom and his brother went to live in Boston for a period of time because their mom was struggling with the money so they stayed with family for a little bit.

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Ben and Curtis mom finally was able to have enough to come back to their hometown .

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Ben gets bullied through out his 5th grade year

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Ben gets bullied through out his 5th grade year

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When Ben came back to his hometown he was way behind it's like everything had changed. He would get called dummy, dumb, or loser and his grades weren't looking good .

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The doctor was telling Ben that he needed glasses for the longest.

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Once Ben got glasses he was finally able to see better and that's when he started to do better in school .

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Ben started to have some really bad temper which at one point he finally noticed it. he was hanging out with a friend and who his name was Bob , so Bob would just change the radio and Ben would get really annoyed about it to the point he almost killed Bob with a knife.

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Since ben always wanted to fit in with people he started to want brand new clothes and never noticed how expensive clothes. until one day his mom had proved him a lesson that she doesn't bring much and wouldn't be able to have enough for a $75 dollar shirt.

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Ben would go and hoop with kids after school just to fit in instead of doing his homework which made his grades slip.

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Their mom being strict with Ben and carson

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Their mom being strict with Ben and carson

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When Ben grades were starting to slip, their mom had enough and decided to make new rules which meant they could only watch 3 tv shows a week and start reading more.

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Ben always studied hard to keep his grades up and make his mom proud.

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Ben decided to join ROTC when he was in tenth grade.

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after Ben watched is favorite TV show he knew he wanted to go to Yale

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Each week of the first semester in Yale Ben slipped father and father from his school work . He prayed to the Lord to help him .

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Ben wasn't looking for love at the moment he got to Yale because he was so busy with all his homework, but one day he spotted this girl named candy .

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When ben had the courage to talk to candy it started going well they went to church together, studied together, although they were just friends at the moment cause they were still more focus on school.

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When candy graduated from Yale Ben was already in his second and third year of medical school. Ben and candy later on got married and live in a small apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Ben and Carson ended up having 3 sons BJ, Rhoeyce, and Murray .

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When Ben decided that he wanted to be a neurosurgery he applied at John's Hopkins medical institutions.

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Ben knew the surgery was going to be difficult after researching the twins, But this might be the chance to help the twins have a normal life.

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Whenever Ben was going to start surgery the day before he always told the family's to pray .

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One day in the middle of the second week after the surgery Ben went and decided to go check up on the twins and realizes that they started to move and eventually both of the boys were able to open their eyes.

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Ben went and checked on the twins at the hospital

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7 years after that surgery, Ben was given a second opportunity to operate on craniopagus Siamese twins in January 1994.

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When Ben arrived he got the bad news that the twins were sick so they agreed to wait a couple months till the twins started regain their strength, he also noticed that south Africa hospital was different from america.

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In June Ben came back and noticed the Makwaeba twins were even sicker than they had since April. The surgery was the only thing to help them out so that's what they did, during the process the girls had passed away and he explain that no other hospital would have been able to safe them.

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In December 1996, Dr. Sam Mokgokong contacted him again because the medical university of south Africa wanted to present Ben with an honorary doctorate.

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A few days later he got a call from Dr. Sam again about another set of craniopagus Siamese twins that had been recently born in Zambia. he was thinking about it since it was in South Africa and his last twins he worked on were in South Africa and it didn't go well.

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Ben found out he had cancer which was called prostate cancer

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Ben and Candy started a Carson scholarship fund because he wanted to recognize and promote young people for superior academic achievements.

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In 2003 the same medical team from Singapore invited Ben to help them out to separate another set of conjoined twins. He declined because he didn't believe the surgery would be successful.

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The more Ben was learning from these twins about how bad they wanted to be separated was because they both wanted to have their alone time and follow their dream future jobs he thought about it knowing it might not be successful due to them being fully grown adults and had already fully develop he still felt bad and agreed to join the surgical team.

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almost every week Ben travels somewhere to speak and shares all the invaluable lessons he learned throughout his life.

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Ben is a popular speaker and invited him to school assemblies, college graduations, business conventions, church services, and etc where he shares his life story and personal faith in God.

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Ben mostly loved talking to young adults he introduced himself as a "class dummy" who became the director of pediatric neurosurgery, He points as living proof with gods help anything is possible .

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Ben often telling his listeners to "THINK BIG" it's his philosophy for success in life, T is for talent, H is for honesty, I is for insight, N is for being nice, K is for knowledge, B is for books, second I is for depth learning, and G is for God.

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Ben earned him a lot of recognition and Many awards . Millions of people would read his story's in magazine articles, books, and newspaper stories. His life story has been performed on stage.

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Numerous filmmakers had approached Ben wanting to tell his inspiring story but he said no because he didn't want them to change the story however they wanted.

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The city of Detroit public schools honored one of its most famous alumni by creating and naming one of the magnet schools the Dr. Benjamin Carson high school for science and medicine .

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Ben loves giving out messages about how the Lord always helped him out throughout his life and all about his plans and new milestones he had just hit.

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In 2012 Ben and Candy wrote a book together for the first time . Many of the issues addressed were Ben felt that he needed to be saying yo teenagers and younger kids, which gave him a head start on some other plans he had for the rest of his life.

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In December 2012, as soon as he retired he was invited to give the key not address at the upcoming National Prayer Breakfast and the last time he was there was back in 1997.

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Ben took the opportunity of the invitation to heavy responsibility to address most of the leaders in the United States , Before that day he prayed to God to help him on what to say that day.

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Many people wanted to interview Ben after the speech he gave about the government because they wanted to continue and listen about his life and how he felt explaining some stuff.

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After Ben gave that speech about the government a few days ago he got some hate and understanding towards him, some wanted him to be a president because of how right he was on certain stuff.

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Ben later on says he was never thinking of running for office because he knew he would lose half of his audience.