Lisa Murray graduated from Purchase College in New York State in 2000. She is now a school teacher in New York for kids with Autism.
Her father continued to live in shelters in New York while Liz went to school. Just as Jean Murray, Liz's mother, he contracted AIDS in 2003. Liz decided to take care of him and continue her education at Columbia but he died in 2006.
As a teen and through her adult years, Jean was a drug addict and alcoholic. Instead of using the welfare checks for food, she and her husband bought drugs. She contracted AIDS and died when Liz was 15.