Students at Naaman Forest High School made Friday night football special for a grieving son, who lost his mother to cancer just one day before playing in the game.
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According to Fox Tampa Bay, Dandric Piolet, 17, posted to Instagram after learning of his mother’s death: “Just letting this all sink in right now. Coming home and finding the woman who breaks her back and struggles day to day to take care of me dead.”
He also tweeted: “Everyone go home and let your mom know you love her she can be here today and gone the next I never even could think this would happen.”
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Classmates and peers were inspired by his resolve. The picture of them praying with him in the school hallway has gone viral.