GOT MAGIC?

Graduating from college is an expensive proposition. Not only do you have to pay a chunk of change for books and tuition, then they nickel and dime you if you want to walk in the ceremony. 

Can you believe they charge $50 for a gown, $12 for a cap and $12 for the tassel? You've been living on Ramen noodles and are intimately familiar with food insecurity, and yet you gotta shell out $75 just to be a part of the graduation.  How crazy is that?

I know all this from a friend who's finishing her Bachelor's degree after a long educational journey. She deserves to do cartwheels across that stage but can't afford the gear. She searched craigslist with no luck.  I thought she might not go to the ceremony and I couldn't let that happen. 

I contacted another friend who recently graduated and asked if she had saved her cap and gown. She had and was happy to share. In one call, the deal was done. I texted my soon-to-graduate friend:

I got your grad gear. Will bring to you tomorrow.

OMG You are great. You are magic.

Magic? Not me.  But seeing my friend in the grad get-up comes close.