ext_335923 ([identity profile] josephwaldman.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kleenexwoman 2008-11-21 02:08 pm (UTC)

Ooh. What kind of cool clothes are you gonna wear under your graduation gown? I was kind of boring and wore a suit (actually, I didn't have a choice there, because the gown was way too short in the arms and legs and I didn't bother trying it on and finding this out until the morning of the ceremony), but I made a point to wear my grandfather Waldman's cufflinks. He wasn't able to finish college because it was in the middle of the Depression and also because he had a recurrence of rheumatic fever, but he was mightily proud to see me off to OWU on a good history scholarship before he died midway through my freshman year. I was extremely close to the man and it really made things rough for a little while there, but I made it through, and I did it for him.

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