My Parents Died Before Graduation and I Thought No One Would Be There for Me — Then Two Hands Covered My Eyes From Behind
I would learn, on that field, that the shoulder had been on its way the whole time.
Chapter 6 — What’s the Point
The morning of graduation, I almost didn’t go.
I stood in the bathroom in the gown, looking at myself in the mirror — a thin, tired boy with his father’s jaw and his mother’s eyes and no one coming to watch him — and the whole thing suddenly seemed unbearable and pointless.
To put on the cap and drive myself to the school and walk alone across a stage and clap for myself, in front of four hundred families, and then drive myself home again.
I went and found Evelyn in her armchair and I said it out loud, the ugly true thing.
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