Four hundred and eleven students crossed that stage in alphabetical order and Julian Renner is in the R block, about two-thirds of the way through, and it takes eleven seconds.

Nobody cheered for him.

That is not self-pity and it is not an accusation.

In a stadium of four thousand people, the cheering for each name comes from that student’s own section, and ours was four people and my mother has a bad hip and could not stand.

So four people made a noise, in a stadium, for eleven seconds.

And then the next name was called.