On Graduation Day an Orphan Girl Asked a Stranger to Pretend to Be Her Dad and What Happened Next Moved Everyone

his eyes, “if you could maybe pretend to be my dad. Just for today. Just for the ceremony. You don’t have to do anything except sit there so I’m not the only one with nobody.”

The silence that followed lasted long enough for Lila to cycle through every possible outcome she had imagined. He would say no. He would say he was busy. He would laugh, not continue reading …