Too visible.
Exactly as I had feared.
Aaron reached the principal, shook her hand, accepted his diploma, and turned toward an auditorium filled with nearly 600 people.
Some were staring.
Some were laughing.
Several students had their phones raised.
I saw one boy in the graduating class lean toward another and grin as he recorded Aaron coming down the stage steps.
My son saw all of it.
Still, he kept walking.
I was sitting in the third row, and I was the only person in that room who knew why he was wearing the dress.
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