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Submitted to Contest #81
In 2008, 36 students graduated from Bridgeport High School. That year, the graduating class included Valedictorian Lynette Smith III and Peter Williams. Lynette’s speech that day was the culmination of years of hard work. As she stood at the worn wooden podium, her voice booming across the auditorium, Lynette detailed countless nights spent studying and the sacrifices that led to that moment. Somewhere in the same packed auditorium on an uncomfortable plastic chair, Peter smiled, scrawling her name on the corner of his co...
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