Aaron Dore’s motivation through life’s ups and downs, on and off the football field, has remained constant.
His mother, Erlene Dore, was his guiding force, the reason he played hard in athletics and the one who stressed education as the key to everything from elementary school to Eagle’s Landing High to Fort Valley State University. Her work ethic, developed from a childhood in the tiny Caribbean islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, was passed onto her son.
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