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COALINGA, Calif. -- Fabiola Solis won't beryllium walking the halls of Coalinga High School overmuch longer.
Graduation is conscionable astir the corner.
"I'm feeling tense and excited for the information that I'm going to beryllium retired of precocious school," she said.
Her freshman twelvemonth started astatine location - during the pandemic.
"I consciousness similar that twelvemonth was the hardest," she said.
Students were invited backmost to field her sophomore year, and she started getting backmost into the groove of things.
Then, connected a Saturday nighttime toward the extremity of her sophomore year, her beingness changed.
"I had told my sister I mightiness beryllium pregnant, I don't know," she said.
Fabiola is the youngest of 4 girls, truthful 1 of her sisters went to get her a gestation trial - and it was positive.
She says she was frightened to archer her parents.
"I'm from a Mexican household, truthful ideate truly strict parents uncovering retired their teenage girl got pregnant," Solis said.
While her parents were disappointed, Fabiola says her begetter took it hardest and their narration was strained.
He said nary substance what, she had to support going to school.
She did, and respective teachers and administrators were determination to assistance on the way.
"Mrs. Love was besides 1 of my number-one supporters," Solis said.
Korie Love, her mathematics teacher, says she initially didn't cognize Fabiola was pregnant.
Once she recovered out, she asked Fabiola however she could enactment her, but says Fabiola didn't request much.
"She truly didn't privation immoderate peculiar treatment," Love said. "She would travel in, bash her work. Very self-driven."
On December 18, 2022, Fabiola gave commencement to a beauteous small lad she named Xavier.
"I don't cognize however to explicate it - my bosom conscionable similar grew," she said. "I felt similar it expanded."
She says her ma is her biggest protagonist and her dada has since travel around. She says now, their narration is amended than ever.
Fabiola tried autarkic survey for a fewer months but it wasn't working, truthful with the enactment from her family, she went backmost to precocious school.
She's besides picked up a part-time job.
"When I'm astatine schoolhouse oregon astatine work, they instrumentality turns helping maine instrumentality attraction of him," she said.
Her sister adjacent brought Xavier by during our interview.
"Seeing him, however blessed helium is, makes maine happy," Fabiola said.
Fabiola hopes her communicative volition talk to different young mothers who are facing the aforesaid obstacles.
"I anticipation it inspires them," she said.
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