My heart broke when your mom read your rejection letters, and was shattered when she ate dinner without you. But man, your success story of building yourself up from that by going beast mode seriously made my spirit soar.

I grew up playing video games with my older brother — more accurately, I grew up watching him whoop my ass in every single game we played because his beast mode was unstoppable. Definitely going to send this his way; I know he’ll really resonate with your story. Thank you so much for writing this!