An Oklahoma man walking 17 miles to work and back each day to make his family proud has had his life turned around when a kind stranger stopped to offer him a ride. Donte Franklin, 20, lost his mother to hepatitis C when he was just 16 years old and life just got hard for him after that as he was raised by his siblings. However, instead of losing hope, he garnered all the strength to push through, and he credits his mom for it. “I had to be positive,” he told WKRC. “I had to grind to make a better me, to make my momma happy.” Despite his almost-three-hour commute to the Buffalo Wild Wings eatery on the other side of Moore, where he works as a cook, he has never been late or missed a shift. However, Franklin’s life took a dramatic turn on June 15; as he …