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granlobomalo
· 6 years ago
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I asked myself that question, too. It turns out that he did. The teen is from Conyers, GA while his campus was 53 mi/85 km away in Barnesville, GA. He borrowed his brother’s bike and rode to campus before school started, pitched a tent in the bushes on campus, and started looking for work. The police got a ‘suspicious person’ report and things got interesting from there. SPOILER: there was a lot of community support that included a free stay in a motel until classes started, a dishwasher job at a local pizzeria, and $9,000+ from a GoFundme to help him out. Interesting read: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/homeless-teen-bikes-6-hours-to-get-to-college-sleeps-in-tent/401160413?ecmp=wsbtv_social_twitter_sfp
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funkmasterrex
· 6 years ago
Okay... I get a TON of people helped him and that's great... but my god... that got out of hand. If I had known all I had to do was travel far and pitch a tent and then basically get everything for free I'da done that a LONG time ago.
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guest
· 6 years ago
Then you didn‘t have the dedication that he had
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