When Your Last Baby Graduates
4 min readJul 19, 2021
The end of an era
My youngest graduated last month. There was actually a normal graduation ceremony this year, not a drive-through event like the class of 2020 had to have because of COVID. It was held outside, our local high school usually does it that way, and it was mostly the same as every other graduation I’ve been to: miserably hot, crowded, and obnoxious people who won’t stop talking. But I was there to…