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Students raise money to get mom to graduation

Michael Tertsea left Nigeria to study and play basketball at the John Carroll School outside Baltimore. A school newspaper story mentioned that his family struggled to make ends meet back home, so his classmates secretly raised $1,600 to help bring his mother, Felicia Ikpum to the U.S. for his graduation. Here is the moment the two first saw each other after four years earlier this month at Baltimore's airport.
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