Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn’t even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year.
He never lost faith through all the nights his family slept in their car when they couldn’t get a hotel room or into a shelter. Especially that first night at a beach parking lot after leaving Philadelphia for California only to learn their new home had disappeared.
A police officer came by their car that night with no parking allowed after midnight and saw a family of four sleeping.
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