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

and warm and it closed around hers with a gentleness that surprised her, the careful grip of someone holding something they were afraid of breaking.

“You know,” he said after a moment, “I wasn’t supposed to be here today. I took the wrong exit off the highway.”

“Maybe it wasn’t the wrong exit,” Lila said.

He did not respond to that, but his hand tightened continue reading …