NOBODY FROM MY FAMILY CAME TO MY GRADUATION

holding my diploma cover and pretending to check my phone so I didn’t look like what I was – alone.

Then I actually checked my phone.

Forty-three texts. Twelve missed calls. But not from before the ceremony. Not “running late” or “which building?” These all came after. In the last twenty minutes.

And on Instagram – because of course – there it was.

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