Posted on 02/21/2015 5:12:36 PM PST by TurboZamboni
An upstate New York teen who became an Internet sensation last fall after petitioning his school to let him appear in a senior yearbook photo with his cat has died after apparently taking his own life, according to police and the teen's parents.
Draven Rodriguez, 17, was a senior at Schenectady High School when his petition for his yearbook photo to feature him and his beloved rescue cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, against a blue and pink laser background went viral. The petition gained thousands of signatures online after the school initially refused.
While the school did ultimately reject the individual photo, Schenectady High School Principal Diane Wilkinson embraced the student's vision and allowed a photo of herself and her rescue dog alongside Rodriguez and his cat to appear on her page in the yearbook, according to TODAY. Rodriguez, Wilkinson and yearbook photographers, Vincent and Fran Giordano of Trinacria Photography, said they hoped the publicity from the photo would raise awareness for rescue animals and their care
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That's funny. In a college writing course this one girl wrote a story about breaking up... the Professor exhaled the smoke from his cigarette (yeah I'm that old) and said "Your first love always leaves you..." We all nodded eagerly, and then he finished with "Thank God for that!"
I am a firm believer that young people should spend alone time on the ocean both swimming in surf and using a small boat. This will dispell them of two prominent hazards of youth -belief in a benign world and their own immortality.
She was a little too nice to one guy
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