Lee County Grad: ‘I wasn’t just doing it for me. I was doing it for them’
July 25, 2024 | Jeffrey Good
For Briseyda Valdez-Alonso, the last chapter of high school was anything but carefree. One of her cousins got in a terrible car crash and landed in a coma. Another cousin, a baby, died. Heartbroken at home, Briseyda felt unmotivated to show up for classes at her former high school.