An Army vet and a coma survivor found friendship through science. Now they're graduating college together
by Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown
May 15, 2018
4 minutes
Around the time Dreyvon McCray was relearning how to walk and talk and live in a world in which a kid can be beaten into a coma over a cell phone, Terin D'amico was jumping out of airplanes and pondering a life after the military.
In 2016, their paths crossed in the cafeteria at Governors State University.
D'amico, a middle-aged "nontraditional" student, approached a group of other students who were eating lunch and asked if he could join them. They said yes.
You might say the friendship that subsequently formed between McCray and D'amico developed organically.
"We both love science,
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