Imagine living in a single parent household with a tireless worker for a mother and losing your home at age 14.
This was the experience for Heat Center Hassan Whiteside. The backstory behind this amazing story starts with a childhood promise from Hassan to his mother Debbie.
“When I was a little kid,” Whiteside said Thursday to the Sun Sentinel, “I told her I wanted to get her a dream house. When I was a little kid, I used to tell her that.”
“When he was 6 or 7, he sat down and drew a box picture,” Debbie Whiteside said, “put a bunch of windows in it — ‘One day, I’m going to buy you this house with a bunch of windows.'”
“When we walked up to the house,” Debbie Whiteside said, “He said, so no one else heard, ‘Turn around, look at the windows.’ That’s when I kind of lost it. I started crying. I started crying.”
With some help in keeping her in the dark, Hassan surprised his mother with a six room North Carolina house. The family reactions range from heart warming to hilarious as all of it will probably leave you misty eyed. Check out the video below on his life long promise come true.