Jun
11
Written by:
Elizabeth Roberts
6/11/2010 1:11 PM
Yesterday was a great day for my family. Nora, our younger daughter, graduated from high school. It was a day when extended family visited, and we talked about Nora and our lives with her from her birth, and we thought forward to college and where her life may be heading.
It is an experience families throughout Rhode Island are having over the next few weeks, proudly watching our surprisingly grown-up teenage children walk across a stage. They walk up those few steps as our children, and they leave the stage as young adults, heading for college, work … the future.
Nora scolded me in advance, knowing I would cry. And she was right. I cried with pride in her accomplishments in school, with bittersweet expectation of the few months we have together this summer, and excitement for her as she leaves for college at the end of August.
Congratulations to all families who have graduating seniors this June. We are launching them into an often-challenging world, but trust that we have done our best to prepare them for it.
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