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Nedra Rhone and Eric Stirgus

Morehouse grads already making plans to pay good fortune forward

Students of the 2019 graduating class at Morehouse College were still in a daze Tuesday after billionaire Robert F. Smith pledged to pay off their student loans owed to the school. While the details were still to come on just how that would happen, students were feeling emotions ranging from relief to inspiration. Many of them were already thinking of ways to follow through on Smith's request that they pay it forward. Here's what some members of the graduating class had to say about the experience, the impact on their future and how they hope to make a difference.

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