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Jacob's early life is pretty normal; he grew up with loving parents, and an older sister (3 years older).. His older sister did lean pretty hard into partying, which did worry him and his parents at times. She ends up pregnant towards the end of her senior year, and eventually, the little girl ends up in Jacob's care. This series of events led to Jacob not only having to raise his niece while he was still in high school but also parent his father, making sure he got at least the bare necessities once he fell into his pit of grief. 

When he was in high school, but after his sister graduated, their mother passed away. She had been sick for a while, but it was ultimately unexpected. Both his sister and his father checked out and turned to various levels of substance use. His niece was often left at the house, leaving Jacob the only sober-minded person around to look after her. For the first year or so after his mom's death, he would miss school, because his dad was either working or enough of a mess that Jacob felt it wasn't wise to leave him alone if something happened. 

This caused him to lose scholarship opportunities for football; he was never super book-smart, but he was able to scrape by with the hopes of sports in his future. With his drop in attendance, and the pull of his focus, his grades slipped, and he was no longer taken seriously by reps. His home issues were kept close to his chest because he didn't want anyone judging his family, and he always felt like it would let his mom down for the world to see how things had played out. 

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