After No One Showed Up to My Graduation My Mom Asked for $2,100 and I Gave Her a Response She Didn’t Expect

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Connor Reed, master of data analytics.

I walked across the stage and shook the dean’s hand and accepted the diploma and scanned section 2B, row five, seats one through four. Empty. Not late. Not finding their seats. Empty in the way that chairs are empty when no one intended to fill them. I walked back to my seat and held the diploma in my lap continue reading …