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

around hers for just a second before he let go, and they sat in silence for a while and watched the families stream into the building with their balloons and cameras and sheet cakes, and the silence between them had the quality not of absence but of companionship, the particular comfort of sitting beside someone who does not need you to perform anything.continue reading …