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Related: About this forumAlex Smith: Most Valuable Player on and off the field
There is Marquis Blount, who grew up fatherless with a drug-addled mother.
And Sade Burrell, who went to elementary school dotted with bruises from beatings her mother delivered with a broomstick.
And Cece Hollis, who, at 16, called social services to escape from a mother who neglected and abused her and a younger sister.
And there are 20 other young men and women whose childhoods were ravaged by pain and abandonment. Former foster teens, theyre now college graduates thanks to Alex Smith and his foundation.
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In the past six years, 23 of the 30 foster teens who received scholarships have graduated thanks, in part, to the staggering support theyve received: up to five years tuition, year-round housing, books, mentors, career guidance, health services and living expenses.
READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE: http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2013/03/12/alex-smith-gave-his-all-off-the-field-too
Here's the kicker: This has been funded mostly with Smith's OWN MONEY.
It's one of the worlds' best kept secrets as well. Thank you Alex. And thanks for mentoring your replacement, Colin Kaepernick, with such grace and dignity. You're aces. Good luck in K.C.
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)and think of the way harbaugh treated him.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Auggie
(31,070 posts)but his exit couldn't be any more impressive.