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Richard Fishburn never imagined he’d one day be facing down debt collectors all because he decided to return to college. This story also appeared in NBC News
An Army veteran who had worked his whole life, Fishburn enrolled at Cleveland State University in Ohio in 2016. But in his third semester, when the back injury he sustained in the Army flared up, his advisers encouraged him to take time to heal so he wasn’t in excruciating pain sitting in lecture halls.