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diploma. I walked across the stage in the rented gown with the uneven glitter cap and the aching feet, and when I reached the other side, I exhaled a breath I had been holding since I enrolled.

After the ceremony, I took one photo outside with my diploma. A classmate named Amanda snapped it for me under the campus lights. The air smelled like cut grass continue reading …