She was asked to the prom by the first guy that ever took notice of her. She felt a moment of excitement followed by sadness. What is a prom like? All of the other kids will be there too. She wouldn't fit in. But, it was a prom! And she was asked to go! She was a little apprehensive about it yet excited. Yes, she thought to herself. I will go to the prom. I will!
She continued walking home from school. She approached her mother at home and simply said, I was asked to the prom.
Her mother tilted her head back and laughed and sneered at her. YOU aren't going to a prom!! She looked at the teen with contempt, ridicule and as if she had just made the most ludicrous statement that she had ever heard.
The teen just walked away feeling again as if she obviously wasn't like the other kids. An outcast. She never brought the subject up again. And she never had an opportunity to attend a prom again. It turned out that that was her only chance.
Years later she got to see what a prom looked like when her own daughter attended a prom. Her daughter even invited her to stay there with her. No, she just wanted a peak at what it was like. She didn't want to ruin her daughter's special night. She was excited and emotional that her daughter looked gorgeous and she wanted her to have great memories of that night. She got to see what her heart had yearned to see for years. A high school prom.
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