Entry NPDR6NXV

No Second Chances After Graduation Night

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Abstract

On the day of my doctoral graduation, I stood backstage in the grand university auditorium, clutching my velvet tam and smoothing the heavy folds of my academic gown. My heart hammered with anticipation as I waited for my parents to find their seats.

To be there for my graduation, my sixty-year-old parents had taken a grueling, twenty-four-hour Greyhound bus ride from our tiny Midwestern town.

Before leaving, they had proudly handed out butterscotch candies to everyone in our small community, beaming as they told the neighbors:

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