When Rayjon Tucker called his mother three times. And over the span of about 12 hours late Monday and into early Tuesday, the 22-year-old got three different responses.
The first time she was calm. “Yeah, you worked hard. You deserve this,” the mother told her son. Then Tucker called again after eating dinner. This time, she was “really happy, geeked up, laughing, yelling.”
Tucker went to sleep on Monday night and called his mother again in the morning.
“That’s when the tears came,” he said. “That’s what I was waiting on the first time. It didn’t quite happen the way I thought it would.