I Thought I’d Face Graduation Alone After Losing Both My Parents-Then Someone Suddenly Covered My Eyes

2 letters, several emails, and one final message reminding me that she raised me better.”

“It worked, didn’t it?” Nana asked.

“It did.”

We took photographs beneath the oak tree. In the best one, my cap was crooked, my face was blotchy, and Graham’s uniform was wrinkled where I had clung to him. Nana’s eyes were red, but her smile was radiant.

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