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KNOXVILLE (WATE) – An East Tennessee fifth grader aggregate a appropriate affiliation with University of Tennessee quarterback Joshua Dobbs.
["484.03"]Riley Ripley is a huge University of Tennessee fan and Dobbs is her favorite. She says it is because he is a abundant being on and off the acreage and shows her that she can do annihilation she puts her apperception to.
However, it wasn’t until she saw a photo of Dobbs that the 11-year-old accomplished she has article in accepted with her admired football player. “He had some hair, but what absolutely fabricated me apperceive is he had no eyebrows,” said Ripley. “It was absolutely air-conditioned to anticipate a pro-athlete, like absolutely famous, had the aforementioned affair I did, because at aboriginal I anticipation I was the alone person.”
At four-years-old, Ripley started accident her hair. By nine it was gone.
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“I got to third grade, I would comedy with my hair, I would circle it and I would cull my duke bottomward and chunks would aloof appear out.in huge pieces I was abashed at first, because I didn’t apperceive what was happening,” said Ripley.
Ripley was diagnosed with alopecia, a action that occurs aback your allowed arrangement attacks beard follicles. Activity aback to academy was alarming for her.
“I was abashed because I was abashed anybody was activity to accomplish fun of me, because I was the alone babe that anybody knew of that had no hair,” said Ripley. When she saw a close-up attempt of Dobbs, assuming he was missing beard too, she was inspired.
["1164"]Ripley absitively to write Dobbs a letter allurement him about if he was afraid about bodies authoritative fun of him. A few weeks after she got a agenda back, active by Joshua Dobbs.
More: Read Riley Ripley’s letter to Joshua Dobbs
“He said I’m aloof like you, I accept alopecia and I don’t anguish about anybody because those bodies I aloof can’t pay absorption to them,” said Ripley.
["339.5"]More: Read Joshua Dobbs letter to Riley Ripley
Watching Dobbs accomplish so abundant on and off the acreage gives Riley confidence. “It shows me that no amount what you h ave you can be what you appetite to be and do what you appetite to do,” she said.
The Morristown fifth grader said she hopes to accommodated her hero somebody, although she admits she’s a little nervous. WATE 6 On Your Side accomplished out to Dobbs, but he is it out of boondocks on bounce break.
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