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

that way, and that I hoped at some point he might consider the full picture of what had happened in that arena and why. He said the records were probably wrong. I said the records were very thoroughly right.

There was a silence.

“She would have wanted us to get along,” he said finally. He meant my mother.

“She wanted a lot of things,” I said. “One of continue reading …