[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/07/03/dash.graduation.art.jpg caption="Dasheen's dark past motivates him to strive for his dreams."] From CNN Producer Ben Tinker Dasheen Ellis’ mother abandoned him, along with his brother, before he was old enough to form a memory of her. “She left us on one of her friend’s steps and never came back,” he recounts. Dasheen was … Continue reading Inspiring foster kid's "dash" for college