The laughter began before Aaron even reached the principal. Sitting in the third row, his mother watched her eighteen-year-old son walk across the graduation stage wearing a bright red dress that had belonged to his twin sister, Mary. Students whispered, phones came out, and someone openly mocked him, but Aaron continued walking without reacting. Months earlier, Mary had chosen that same dress during one of the last ordinary afternoons they shared while she was receiving treatment for a serious illne…Continue Reading
