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106-year-old South Carolina man gets honorary high school diploma

In a ceremony attended by more than 100 people, Fred Allen Smalls, a 106-year-old South Carolina man crossed the stage to accept an honorary high school diploma.

Known as "Gramps, he received the document from Georgetown High School.

Smalls' granddaughter, Birdella Kinney, worked for over a year to get Smalls his diploma and organize the ceremony.

Kinney has been documenting Smalls' favorite activities, including watching sports and spending time with the family's dog, Bella, on TikTok. The videos led to Smalls being featured in an NBC News article on Black centenarians who became social media celebrities.

Smalls, born Feb. 5, 1918, in the Plantersville area of Georgetown County, left school after the eighth grade to move to Washington, D.C., and help support his family.


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