![]() ![]() Her dad kisses her forehead and tries to pretend he’s not a little misty-eyed. Outside the restaurant after lunch, Lorelei-or Lola for the rare few who make it to her inner circle-pulls her keys from her purse and shakes them at me with a celebratory shimmy. No one on film ever looks like they’re going to die of heatstroke in their polyester gown… I’d pay someone a lot of money to burn all the pictures that were taken of me today. The keynote speaker loses his notes in a gust of wind and decides to wing it, delivering a thoroughly uninspired commencement address on turning mistakes into the building blocks for a brighter tomorrow, complete with awkward stories about his recent divorce. ![]() I throw my cap in the air and it comes down and cracks someone in the forehead. THE DAY WE officially graduate from college is nothing like how it’s depicted in movies. ![]()
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