Coming Attractions
“She had held in her feelings… well, for most of her life. Long ago she had told herself, If you don’t care, then you can’t be hurt. That was perhaps the strongest lesson her mother had taught her without ever saying a word.
Yet here was Vivian Weldon, breaking all her own rules, sitting in the front row with Katie’s dad, demonstrating their unspoken pride and care for their only daughter.
Katie let the tears come. She didn’t care who saw her. Let them think she was happy to be graduating.
She watched as her classmates walked across the stage. She applauded and kept wiping her tears on her robe’s sleeve. When it came to the Ls, Katie watched Eli take strong, confident steps to accept his diploma. She smiled, cried, applauded, and laughed a little when she heard Eli’s Ghanaian friend, Joseph, from somewhere in the bleachers let out a wild whoop.
All the while, Katie thought of how her parents were waiting for her to stride across the stage.
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