by Emma Davey 
CORRECTION 01/13/23: Raïf issued an update on his GoFundMe page, after a neighbor mistakenly shared with us that he worked as a firefighter on 9/11.
“Hello everyone!!! Thank you to everyone who has donated or shared. I am more grateful than you will ever know . I need to clear something up that someone told me is going around Facebook, I was NOT a firefighter at any point of my life. I was a personal…
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