Gordon reluctantly examined the page. His expression changed when he recognized the scholarship’s name: the Walter R. Dunmore Scholarship. Hailey explained that her grandfather had secretly funded it since 1996, donating seventy-five dollars every month directly from his school district paycheck.
For twenty-eight years, Walter had supported nineteen students, covering their full tuition. Every recipient had worked while attending high school. His identity remained anonymous until his death, when the university finally revealed his name and displayed his photograph. Hailey had visited the financial aid office and discovered the truth herself. Then she asked her father what he had built with his expensive lifestyle compared with what Walter had accomplished on thirteen dollars an hour. Gordon stood up and disappeared for thirty-five minutes. When he returned, his eyes were red. He looked at me and quietly confessed something nobody at that table had expected.
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