Behind Closed Doors: My Life As Ke'Ladriah Wallace

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Brushing the dust off the stone in the ground, replacing the old flowers with new ones, and not crying but smiling I looked down at my father's grave while the tears of joy spilled from my eyes. I had done what's no one else thought that I could do. Graduate high school. "You see this daddy, I did it. I did it for you, Trenton, Miyah, and mostly I did it for myself. I just wish you could see it in person. Man, I really love you dad. From now on I'm going to continue to do better things to keep making you and me proud, yeah what Angela did was messed up but I'm moving on from that. I gotta go now pops, i have a dinner to get to. See you soon!" I hesitantly rubbed his stone with his name engraved on it and got up dusting myself off and getting back into the car. Ke'Ladriah Amariah Wallace you've really grown up.