Before the Grad
What everyone thinks happens next
7 people, two very different opinions
What the family says
In ten years she is running a lab and still calling me every Sunday.
Next year: still borrowing my hoodies across state lines.
She stayed after every robotics practice to teach the freshmen, even the year she was captain and exhausted. Nobody asked her to. That is who she is.
When she read her essay about my kitchen at the assembly, I cried in front of the whole gym. She saw me and kept reading. Proud is too small a word.
What their friends say
In ten years she is my boss. I have made peace with this.
Ten years from now she is building the robot that replaces me. Good.
Break things on purpose. Write down what happened.
If the spreadsheet gets a second tab, go outside.
The two groups rarely agree, which is the point.