By Page Six Team
A formerly homeless student who wrote a letter to President Obama to share his story and get some advice is selling a handwritten response to pay off his tuition.
Jesse Grainger wrote, “As a child I had big dreams of going to college and doing great things . . . I came from a small town where most people were poor, especially my mother and me. My mom adopted me when I was one day old. She raised me to believe that education was the most important thing that I could ever get. My adopted mom died when I was 13.”
Grainger details how he was lost in child services and, “The day I turned 17 I walked out . . . with a book bag, a few outfits, and my mom’s Bible to set out on a journey that has forever changed my life.”
He was ultimately taken in by a family in South Carolina while attending junior college and admitted to Winthrop University for a degree in social work.
A formerly homeless student who wrote a letter to President Obama to share his story and get some advice is selling a handwritten response to pay off his tuition.
Jesse Grainger wrote, “As a child I had big dreams of going to college and doing great things . . . I came from a small town where most people were poor, especially my mother and me. My mom adopted me when I was one day old. She raised me to believe that education was the most important thing that I could ever get. My adopted mom died when I was 13.”
Grainger details how he was lost in child services and, “The day I turned 17 I walked out . . . with a book bag, a few outfits, and my mom’s Bible to set out on a journey that has forever changed my life.”
He was ultimately taken in by a family in South Carolina while attending junior college and admitted to Winthrop University for a degree in social work.
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