to Maria that he met a girl named Linda while job shadowing and the two had started dating.“Just remember, some of us might come from nothing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be something.”She worked for a cleaning company as a janitor and often struggled to make ends meet. Maria worked,

12 hours daily to ensure that she could feed Aiden and that he was taken care of. Once he was old enough, she sent him to a good boarding school in the suburbs. “I’m gonna work real hard off to make sure you can attend college. Momma’s got you covered, okay,” she told Aiden before he boarded the bus. Maria made sure to write to Aiden every chance that she could.