When she opened the door, she wished she could have done it sooner. Applause sounded throughout the room as Jennifer walked on stage. She was here to receive her high school diploma after spending the past three years in and out of the hospital.
Despite not being present for a majority of the time, Jennifer still studied as hard as she could and completed every assignment that her incapacity didn't prevent her from accomplishing. The take-home tests her teachers sent home proved sufficient enough to demonstrate her knowledge of the subject matter. Though not in time for graduation, the doctors cleared her to return home a month after school finished.
She had passed all of her classes but missed all of the celebrations. The principal had invited her to receive her diploma in person at the school, and when she walked into a room full of her friends, classmates, and teachers, she was brought to tears. The principal gave a wonderful speech; an encomium of her efforts through the hardship she faced all through high school. When the speech ended the audience rushed to the stage to congratulate her. Jennifer's friends invited her out afterward, and she gladly accepted; she'd been longing for this most of all.
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