At My Graduation, My Dad Told 2,000 People Not to Clap — I Stepped Back to the Mic

started and I had straightened from the microphone and the expression on my face was the specific expression of someone who has been carrying something heavy for a long time and has just been allowed to set it down.

The caption read: Hargrove valedictorian addresses graduating class.

Which was accurate and which was, I thought, exactly sufficient.

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