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19-year-old Jessica Lewis, who’s from the Atlanta area in Georgia, recently had to evacuate her college town of Statesboro, Georgia, to head home to be with her family before Hurricane Irma arrived.

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Jessica’s family home is four hours away from her college, and therefore she needed to leave as soon as possible.

The only problem? She still had a class to attend that she didn’t want to miss out on.

There was also another issue: her beloved dog, Luna, was still at home.


Jessica told Metro.co.uk that her college had cancelled classes starting the following day so that students were able to get out of the way of the storm, but she knew traffic was going to be bad because the entire coast and the entire state below were already evacuating.

(Picture: Jessica Lewis)

‘I wanted to get out as quickly as possible to beat the traffic,’ she told us.



‘At the time, the storm was expected to hit the area of my college somewhat seriously.’

Georgia explained that though she wanted to leave college safely, she had one class left for the day and didn’t want to skip it and fall behind. She’d already packed up her car that morning ready to leave after the class, but she still had the issue of having to head home to collect Luna.

Wanting to find the quickest and easiest way to get her dog, Jessica contacted her college professor, begging him to let her bring Luna along to the class with her.

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Jessica said: ‘I thought about it and was like you know what, I’m just gonna email my professor and ask to take her and see what he says.’

In an email to her professor, Dr. Kennedy, Jessica wrote: ‘My name is Jessica Lewis and I’m in your TR Intro to Political Science class at 3.30pm. I realize that the answer is probably no, but I thought that you might actually be a cool enough professor to say yes, and so I figured it was worth a shot.

(Picture: Jessica Lewis)

‘Can I bring my dog to class today? It would help me out SO much because your class is my last class of the day and I have to leave as soon as your class gets out to try to get home to Alanta as soon as possible (trying my hardest to beat this storm traffic but your class is important to me so I don’t want to skip it) and it would prevent me from having to go all the way back to my apartment to get her before I can get on the road.’

She concluded: ‘I promise she’ll be good and only the teeniest bit disruptive.’

Jessica went on to attach several photos of Luna to sweeten the deal, and it worked, as Dr. Kennedy ended up saying yes.

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In a brilliant email, he responded: ‘Did you think calling me “cool” would get me to say yes? Because it won’t work.

‘What will work is that SHE’S OBVIOUSLY A GOOD GIRL SO OF COURSE YOU CAN BRING HER.’

Overwhelmed, Jessica says she didn’t expect her professor to say yes at all.

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‘I was expecting him to either say no or not respond at all,’ she explained.



‘He responded in less than a minute and I screamed and ran outside to show my roommate.’

After it was confirmed that it was okay, Jessica brought Luna along to the class and apparently she ‘behaved pretty well’, walking around, letting everyone pet her, and making sure she got attention from every single student.

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Jessica said: ‘They all loved her, and the professor loved her as well. They were all great, and the professor just laughed along with us whenever Luna did something funny.’

And it wasn’t just her class or professor laughing, as Jessica went on to share screenshots of her emails to her Facebook and Twitter accounts, where they received thousands of likes and retweets.

(Picture: Jessica Lewis)

While Jessica is certainly surprised by the reaction, she’s mostly thankful that her professor made things easier for her, and helped in ensuring she got home safely.

Jessica told us that she managed to get home to her family in time, and though it took longer than expected due to traffic, she was ‘definitely out in time for the storm and ended up having no damage at all’.

‘Thank God,’ she said. ‘Everything is well!’

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