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Braiheen Jamison, 22, home health aide who wanted to marry fiancee ‘and have 10 kids’
It was the spring of 2011, and Braiheen Jamison was preparing to start his new life. A recent graduate of Glenn Mills High School, Braiheen had a job interview lined up and was expecting a baby boy with his fiancee, Kenya. “They wanted to get married and have 10 kids,” says his mother, Wendy Jamison. […]
Jarell Seay, 18, a kind and generous young man who overcame the trauma of bullying
When Jarell Seay was about 8 years old, his mother, Cheryl, noticed he wasn’t wearing the Scooby Doo watch he’d received for his birthday. Jarell had a friend whose parents were struggling with addiction and couldn’t provide the things he had, so Jarell did something about it. “He said, ‘He didn’t have anything, so I […]
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