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

of the family and the enthusiasm of the relatives. Some families had organized coordinated shouts. Some had air horns. One grandmother in the back row had a cowbell that she rang with uninhibited joy every time a name was called, regardless of whether the child was hers, which made people laugh and which Lila loved without quite knowing why.

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