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UW-Madison grad’s emotional commencement speech goes viral: ‘We’re gonna teach ’em how to say goodbye.’

In the month since (Lisa Kamal) made the speech — a poignant meditation on belonging, resilience, diversity, mental health and kindness toward oneself — the video went viral, garnering 3.5 million views across multiple social media platforms and a lot of attention, especially from her home country of Malaysia.