With massive support from his community, an 8-year-old boy has raised $19,500 by auctioning off the pet hog that he raised for a year to help his best friend, who is battling a brain tumor. Jesse James Starr of Sullivan, Missouri, has been friends with 7-year-old Claire Calvin since preschool. Saddened with Claire’s diagnosis, Jesse decided he wanted to help by selling the hog he raised at his family’s farm. His parents, Shauna and Joshua Starr, backed him 100 percent. “Jesse came up with the idea on his own,” Shauna told The Epoch Times. “They are truly the definition of best friends.” Since Claire got diagnosed, Jesse began meeting her in the Sullivan Primary School parking lot before class to make her smile, continues to bring her breakfast, and even stays inside to play with her during recess. The cancer, Jesse explained, “made [Claire] have to be in a wheelchair and …