My Classmates Teased Me for Being a Pastor’s Daughter Until My Graduation Speech Changed Everything

was careful and gracious and organized around themes of gratitude and forward motion and the particular hopefulness of a person standing at the beginning of one thing and the end of another. It was, in other words, a good graduation speech and not the real speech, because the real speech was the one I was too careful to write.

Dad listened to me practice continue reading …