Garrison Keillor | The Graduation Speech I Didn't Get to Give




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Garrison Keillor | The Graduation Speech I Didn't Get to Give 
Garrison Keillor. (photo: MPR)
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t was graduation weekend at my daughter’s school and so I hung out with emotional dads for a couple of days and at the graduation dance I got a little teary-eyed myself. It was the Father-Daughter dance and we shimmied and shook to “I Saw Her Standing There” and then a slow waltz to “Wonderful World” and I sang the words to her, “I hear babies cry, I watch them grow; they’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know.” And I meant them.
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