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Adam Hammer, 17, ‘the realest person you’d ever met’
When he was in sixth grade, Adam Hammer wrote about how his dream was to walk onto the football field at Oklahoma State University, just like Vince Papale did with the Eagles. He was nervous because at the time, he was the shortest player on the team and only weighed about 45 pounds, but Adam […]
Tyree Zellars, 18, always seeking knowledge from his elders
Tyree Zellars always gravitated towards his elders. He loved his whole family, but thrived with the wealth of knowledge and guidance his grandparents provided him. “He was a family boy, he really was,” Alane Zellars, Tyree’s mother, said. “When he got out of school, he would go home to check on his grandma, then he […]
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