They call it Twin Day. It’s on the calendar every autumn during Tyner Academy’s homecoming week. The students all pick someone to partner with, usually wearing matching outfits.
This past fall, Javon Craddock asked his geometry teacher, Rachel Cherry, if she would agree to be his twin.
“I’ve got Thing One and Thing Two T-shirts,” he said. “I’ll bring you one.”
Cherry said she would do it, never believing Craddock would follow through. But there he was the next day with her shirt.
“In many ways he was just a normal teenage boy,” Cherry said this week. “But there was something special about him, too. You never saw him not smiling.”