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

for four years, some of whom had been kind and some of whom had not, most of whom were somewhere in the ordinary middle.

“It’s interesting,” I said, “how people decide who you are without ever asking.”

The room went still. The particular stillness of a crowd that has just recognized that what they are hearing is not what they prepared themselves for.continue reading …