One of the most gracious things I have ever heard about

was the young man that took a family friend to his prom.

He had come home from school one day. His mother was sitting there with a friend drinking coffee and his mother asked him what he was going to do for the prom. He told her he was planning on not attending.

His mom's friend told him he'd be disappointed later on in life if he didn't go and admitted that she had missed her proms and had felt bad about it for years.

The young man actually had a logical reason for not wanting to attend. He figured why waste the time and money going to the prom with someone he wasn't likely to have anything to do with after graduation. I felt the same way back in the day.

Later that evening he was talking to his mother who told her that the family friend had been bothered by not going to her prom.

So the son went over to the friend's house and talked her into going to the prom with him.

Now apparently this young man shares my mischievous sense of humor. He told nobody who he was taking to the prom.

When he showed up with a woman twenty odd years his senior he simply referred to her as 'my date' or 'my girl' and left it at that. She picked up on it and referred to him as 'my sweetie'.

In short they both kept his entire class guessing and the pair of them had a great time.

He never did let the cat out of the bag and the only reason I know about this is because his mother told me about it about twenty years after the fact.

The woman finally got to her prom and I'd bet it's a lot more memorable than if she had gone as a teenager.

The young man's reasoning for not wanting to go in the first place was he didn't want to waste time and money on someone he'd forget about in six months which makes sense.

This way he had a prom memory that would last a lifetime and also fulfilled someone else's dream.

  







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