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NNadir

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32. One of the saddest things I ever overheard was in a...

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #10)

Fri May 27, 2022, 10:16 AM

May 2022

...restaurant during "parent's weekend" at my son's fairly rigorous university during his freshman year, when a young man there on a football scholarship telling his family that he was failing all his courses and would lose his scholarship and need to dropout.

It was heart breaking. We still talk about it.

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