My Son Wore a Bright Red Dress Across the Graduation Stage While Hundreds Laughed — Then He Showed Me the Locket

Chapter 5 — This Is for You, Mom

“This is for you, Mom,” he whispered.

And then he paused, and added, in a voice that broke slightly on the words, “And for both of us.”

For both of us.

I did not understand, in that instant, what he meant.

There were two of us there, Julian and me.

But the way he said it, both of us, did not sound like it meant the two people standing in that aisle.

Before I could ask, Julian reached into a hidden pocket, sewn cleverly into the side seam of the red dress, a pocket no one would have known was there.