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Anthony Mendez

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The White House made me a poster child for beating the odds. Then I dropped out of college.
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“The same kid who had sat next to the first lady as an example of how anybody could beat the odds and attend college was no longer even in college. I felt like a fraud.”

By Anthony Mendez