Article: A wise old owl knows graduation parties can be a hoot

It's graduation party time. Whether it's junior high, high school or college - it's the season when parents let out a sigh of relief, and guests wonder if the party food will be enough for dinner or just a snack to tide them over.

Maybe it's me, but graduation parties today seem a little different. My graduation parties were small affairs, usually just the grandparents, a few aunts and uncles and a couple neighbors. We'd come home from the school, happy the event was over and starving for food. The adults would complain about sitting on the uncomfortable bleachers. I would complain that my feet hurt and rip off my high heels the second I walked in the house.

The men would take off their ties ...

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