Lily graduated from law school on a Friday in June.The ceremony was in London. Grace and Aiden flew in for it — they did not discuss whether they would go, they simply went, because Lily graduating from law school was not an event that was attended or not attended depending on scheduling, it was an event that was attended.Their daughter spent the ceremony pulling at the collar of the outfit Grace had dressed her in and looking at the ceiling with the deep philosophical suspicion of a two-year-old confronted with formal proceedings. She fell asleep on Aiden's shoulder during the dean's address, which was the right response.Lily came down from the stage with her degree and found them in the crowd and hugged Grace for a long time."You did it," Grace said."I did it," Lily said. Into her shoulder. The particular voice of someone who had been holding the emotion down through the ceremony and was now releasing it into a safe place.Grace held on.Lily had joined Tessa's Table's legal ad
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