Alex proves his love for his sister by making her proud.
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According to CBS News, at 4 years old, Brunswick, Georgia, resident Alex Kunda loved his older sister Miranda so much that he kept his promise since last 13 years.
The young girl was so dedicated towards her studies that she never missed a day of first grade. That’s a very inspiring and impressive achievement for any newly minted student.
But, the brilliant student, Miranda suffered from autoimmune hepatitis, unfortunately.
The Mayo Clinic explained that “autoimmune hepatitis is liver inflammation that causes when your body’s immune system turns against liver cells.”
The condition gives you chronic fatigue, nausea, joint pain, and abdominal pain.
Autoimmune hepatitis can be cured of a liver transplant sometimes. But unfortunately, in Miranda’s case, it ended up taking her life.
When everyone realized that Miranda wouldn’t make it, her school presented her with a reward for her perfect attendance. According to WHIO, the task of accepting it in person fell to the-4-year-old Alex.
When he came with the reward in hand, he told something to his parents.
His father, Preston Kunda, recalled: “He says, ‘I’m going to do this for her.’ He was going to get perfect attendance in honor of her.”
Alex’s parents touched by his statement after seeing his youthful enthusiasm, and one thing became clear as each year passed on, Alex did hard work to keep his promise.
His parents got worried about their son’s insistence on making it to school each and every day that they tried to divert his mind and break his attendance streak. While he was in the fourth grade, they offered to take him out of school so he could go to Disney World.
“On a Friday, we were going to take him out of school. And he said no,” his mother, Arlene Kunda, said.
Alex had a good reason for maintaining his consistent punctuality.
“This was the one promise I remembered making to her,” he said. “And I can’t make any more promises to her in person, anymore. So the one promise I did make, I was going to keep it.”
“I’ve never been absent, tardy, or been checked out early for the past 13 years,” he added. “Every time I would not want to come to school, I would think about the promise I made and how important it was for me to keep it.”
According to The Daily Mail: Alex’s achievement translated into roughly 2,340 days in the classroom.
Now he is a high school graduate, and he became the only student ever in the Glynn County School District to have perfect attendance.
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