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Fulfilling a life long dream

Hello, my name is Amir Fluellen and this is my story:
I was born in inner-city philadelphia to a single parent home consisting of my mother and 3 brothers. My father was incarcerated before I could walk, so the only way I've known him is inside of a brown jumpsuit, behind wired gates and thick concrete walls. When I turned 5 years old I was sitting on my father's lap with my mother and brothers inside of a prison visiting room and I made him a promise. I promised to be successful and make him proud by going to school and getting a college degree. From then on it's been my goal to be the young man my parents have always wished I could be. In 2004 my mom suffered a work related injury that ended her work career and rendered her disabled, my dream was now geared towards making my dreams come true for the sake of my parents' dreams being deferred. A few years later I had attended a charter school (mastery charter). This school provided great opportunities for me but not enough to achieve the success that I thought would be possible to reach the goals I had for myself. During the summer of my sophomore year I thought that I would apply to a private school(Shipley) to try to garner better relationships and set myself up for success in the future. After two years at Shipley I was able to get into a really good school with a great buisness program that would help me with my major (finance) and help to provide a career for me after school. This summer before attending college my mother was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma or kidney cancer. This was a very hard time for my family, it put me under a lot of stress mentally and financially and made it hard to get ready to be a college student let alone an athlete. In August a few days before I was scheduled to attend college my mother had another appointment with a specialist where we found that her cancer had somehow gone away. It was like having the weight of the world lifted off of your shoulders but little did I know that weight would only resume it's place. The weight wasn't in the form of cancer but had now become monetary. Without any family financial support and little from the university I still need a lot more to ensure that my dreams become reality. Help of any kind is greatly appreciated by me (and my family) and is surely going to a great cause. I  would like to finish with a bachelor's degree and this go fund me project is the only way that can be possible. your donations are a direct result of any success I have in the future and are greatly appreciated. I am the first of my mother's 4 children to pursue a degree at a university. My entire life I have sought to be better than the community I was raised in. Drugs, crime and death are all apart of my story, but they are not who I am, I would like to be a difference in my community and my family instead of a negative statistic. #GFMscholarship

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Amir Fluellen
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Philadelphia, PA

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