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Pettway motivated by humble Alabama roots

Walk in the front door of the house overgrown by trees well off Shiloh Road in Atmore, Ala., and the living room sits on the right-hand side. To the left is another room once occupied by two people each night.

In all, three rooms and a bathroom make up the now-worn down structure Arkansas junior receiver La’Michael Pettway used to call home. It belonged to his great-great grandmother and sits on land at one time owned by a great aunt, he said.

In March, his most recent trip to Alabama, Pettway visited the light blue house with the rotting front porch and discolored white wooden support beams.