Aaron Vickers wrote a letter to his future self for a high school assignment 14 years ago.
What nobody could have known at the time, was that he would be shot and killed in a drive-by shooting at the age of 19, two years after he wrote the letter.
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In 2002, Aaron’s family lost their aspiring NFL player, rapper and soon-to-be father in Stockton, Calif.
But now, more than a decade after Aaron wrote his four-page letter talking about his hopes and aspirations, his family has had the chance to read his innermost thoughts.
“I’ve never felt his presence like that in the past 14 years, but I felt like he was sitting right next to the side of me,” Aaron’s mother Deanetta Vickers told CBS.
The letter was being kept by Aaron’s high school teacher, Daryl Hutchins. He promised his students he would send back the letters by mail 10 years later.
But when Hutchins only recently learned that Aaron was dead, he turned to Facebook to find his family, in the hopes of giving them the letter.
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“When I opened the letter and saw his handwriting, tears filled my eyes,” Tyra Vickers-Kearney, Vickers’s sister, told CBS.
Aaron’s family said reading his letter was very emotional but they were surprised by his eerily accurate take on the U.S. political landscape.
“He mentioned in 10 years, we’ll probably have a black vice president. Or maybe a woman would be president,” Tyra Vickers-Kearney said.
Aaron’s son, now 13, never got to meet his dad, but said he feels a little closer to him, thanks to the letter.
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