The Most Beautiful Girl in School Asked Me to Prom

is strange.

You never know where it ends.

One small act creates another.

Then another.

A single dance becomes confidence.

Confidence becomes opportunity.

Opportunity becomes success.

Success becomes gratitude.

Gratitude becomes generosity.

And eventually, twenty years later, the circle closes.

Not because anyone planned it.

Because kindness has a way of finding its way home.

The funny thing is people often ask what happened after that.

Whether we fell in love.

Whether we got married.

Whether this became that kind of story.

Sometimes life does that.

Sometimes it doesn’t.

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