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THE CRIB
No matter how hard I tried to enjoy myself on graduation night, I couldn’t party the way I wanted to. I walked across the stage, heard my name called on the loudspeaker, shook the prin cipal’s hand, got my diploma, turned my tassels and threw my cap in the air. I even took pictures with my family afterward. Yet a small part of me still felt like a failure.
Maybe sitting at the kitchen table guzzling shots of Hennes sey with my boy T Spoon had something to do with my moment of introspection. But for some reason, I just wasn’t in the partying mood. For mostly everybody else at the party, this was the end of the line. Just getting a high school diploma was the biggest accomplishment they would ever know. T Spoon was a fifth year senior who bounced around four different h ...
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