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“I used to dream of this becoming this magnificent Central Park of Los Angeles, where it could make connections between these neighborhoods,” he said.

In the end, he created a United States where people could try, fail and have the helping hand to get back up again — the real underpinning of the American dream.

"I would love to claim that there's a great application, but my work keeps pushing that dream further away," said Li, a professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

Never ever dreamed that I would be doing what I'm doing today.

The dream also came to a premature end for Su-Elise Nash.