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2020 Virtual Graduations
/ 8 Jun 2020
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/ 8 Jun 2020
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Charleston County School of the Arts Virtual Graduation 2020 - Version 1
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Charleston County School of the Arts Virtual Graduation 2020 - Version 1
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Good evening, I'm jury to postulate superintendent of charleston county.
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Schools and it's a pleasure to welcome you to this graduation celebration for.
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The class of 2020, as you know, this virtual ceremony is just the first way.
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Graduates will be recognized.
Your school has planned face-to-face diploma.
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Awarding ceremonies for you in the coming days today, I want to acknowledge.
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Up front that we all rather be together, just as we would have preferred to spend.
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The last two months going to class participating in or attending school.
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Activities going to the prom just enjoying the normal school during the.
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Final weeks of your journey that began many years ago in elementary school and.
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Brought you to this point, however: the pandemic has forced all of.
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Us to rethink everything that we previously knew as normal.
One thing that.
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Has not changed is your remarkable accomplishments.
We gather today to.
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Recognize the relationships that you have formed to honor your achievements.
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Your memories and your hard work, so I offer to each of you my personal.
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Congratulations: you've achieved this milestone event of graduation.
We will.
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Celebrate you virtually today and look forward to seeing you in person to offer.
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You our best wishes, as you enter the world as the remarkable class of 2020.
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Welcome to all soa seniors and their loved ones.
I invite you to put on your.
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Cap as you viewed the ceremony making sure your tassel is on the left side, not.
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Only our accomplishments, as students definitely worth noting, but our.
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Accomplishments as artists are as well the portraits we've painted and poems.
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We've written and music we've mastered these past few months have been surreal.
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Now, like never before, I can picture my day-to-day life being in the page.
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Of a textbook that our children will study one day and it's for that very.
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Reason that the skills we've developed as artists are so important.
It was after.
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All in the midst of the spanish civil war that pablo picasso painted guernica.
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The famous mural that persists is one of the most poignant anti-war artworks to.
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This day it was in the strife of 1945 during a cigar worker strike in this.
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Very city that tobacco workers sung for the first time the modern version of we.
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Shall overcome a song so powerful?
It became the soundtrack to the civil.
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Rights, movement- and it was directly after the horrors of 9/11 that colum.
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Mccann penned the novel, let the great world spin a book that decades later.
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Would lift the spirits of dozens of ap lang students reminding us that even.
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When times are hard, the earth continues to turn and we continue to have each.
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Other in times of uncertainty and tragedy, art is how we cope.
How we pick.
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Ourselves back up again and continue forward.
Not all of us will become.
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Composers and playwrights and designers, but all of us have been shaped by our.
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Time at soa- and I know we can persevere in the face of this pandemic because we.
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Are equipped with the skills to create beauty, even as the world insists on.
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Showing us ugly truths, it's been said that life gives out lemons well,.
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Sometimes your graduation ceremony is on youtube even still the performances.
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You're about to see you will astound, inspire and comfort you sweet as.
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Lemonade.
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Oh say: can you see by the dawn's early light?
What so proudly we hailed at the.
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Twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the.
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Perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
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I try to flag was still there oh say: does that star-spangled.
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The free.
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Oh.
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As the principle of soa, I had the privilege of meeting many of our seniors.
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As sixth graders and watching them develop and mature into the respected.
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Scholars compassionate humanitarians and incredible artists that were celebrating.
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Today, throughout this ceremony, you will see a video featuring each of our art.
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Majors, I know that without a doubt you will be impressed with their skill and.
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Composure and amazed at their artistry, the first set of videos features our.
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Dance, creative writing and band majors.
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I never thought that you, but be the wine, the home, my heart, but you came around.
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Then you knocked me off the ground from the start.
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That is.
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We go, you put your.
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Change my turn.
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Forever, drought.
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Did you see.
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You catch me.
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You put.
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And I can't find a reason to.
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She catch me.
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Your arms around me die believe that is easier fear.
Let me go.
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When I told two of you that I wanted to write a poem about our class, one of you.
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Said keep it to yourself or don't do it?
It doesn't matter who spoke the other.
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One of you agreed and you're right so selfish of me to want to trap the.
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Feeling of being sandwiched between my best friends on the couch and one of you.
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Says a dog wouldn't eat an apple, but it had eaten apple pie of laughing.
With my.
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Head in your lap, hair, fanned across her legs like pine needles, watching people.
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Passed by the fingerprinted windows of our classroom, you're right, and so I will.
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Not write a poem recounting our trip to walmart to purchase syrups and sweetened.
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Condensed, milk for our beloved class snow cone machine.
I will not write of.
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Our trip to bulls, island or of learning kabuki theater or of any other sixth.
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Grade misadventures, I won't include a line referencing the.
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Legendary 14 dab salute or our favorite show brave, new voices, and I will not.
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Write about our class's second year, venturing to lake logan, how we finally.
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Made it to the top of the most picturesque mountain after spending an.
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Hour, hiking the opposite way how we spend one night just before bed scream.
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Singing the words to a half forgotten song from the early 2000s dancing in a.
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Circle hand in hand with each other.
I said I wasn't going to write upon.
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Instead, I've tried to find an allegory for our class, something that could.
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Accurately describe the hours we've spent, dancing and crying and sitting and.
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Chewing and laughing and whispering together.
However, after one notable night.
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Of lying awake in bed trying to conjure up something unique or profound, I could.
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Only think of the story of barbie and the three musketeers, the story as you.
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Can imagine is incredibly straightforward and familiar, but I think.
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That it's a suiting metaphor, the 12 of us, will be separated on in.
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Only a few months, for the first time in seven years off to different parts of.
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The country to learn and grow, and perhaps it is only me that needs the.
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Survivor, but I wanted to make sure you all know that you are musketeers.
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But you bear arms not physically, but in wit and in humor, and an empathy among.
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Hundreds of others positive characteristics when you sleep for the.
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First time in an unfamiliar bedroom, beside an unfamiliar face and only a.
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Half familiar town, you're brave, if you find yourself patting a new friend on.
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The shoulder in a crammed bathroom, while he or she acts or the comfort of home.
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You are even braver, even if you feel small swimming beside the thousands of.
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Other fish in your new ocean remember: there will always be 11.
Other people.
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That believe, you are brilliant and capable.
I have always been a nostalgic.
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Person and so for much of this year, I found myself struggling to grapple with.
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The idea of being yanked from the security blanket of the 11 quilt squares.
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That smells so strongly of home of not being able to spend my weekdays.
The only.
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Way, I can imagine them cramp together in our dark classroom, the chorus of our.
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Voices on loop to cope, I've constructed a scenario, one.
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That I hope you can turn to to if you ever feel stressed or lonely or homesick.
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And the looming months, the twelve of us are still in lake logan after hiking.
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Down from that mountaintop, we follow the path like we're supposed to.
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But somehow get lost along the way.
Again now we stand in the middle of a dense.
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Wood, you look up.
Bosses droop, like grain, beards and branches, tangle themselves,.
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Together, gnarled and bony like fingers, we look down unfamiliar mushrooms, black.
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Beetles that scurry across our feet, climbing hills.
We look to our sides and.
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See each other among the brush in the weeds, maybe we're even dressed.
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Ridiculously like musketeers, none of us know the way out of this forest, but.
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Today, this fails to matter we smile at each other, we nod knowingly.
After all, we.
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Still have a few more months at home and if not growing beside one another in.
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This green green forest for just a little while longer.
Where else would we.
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Be.
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Hello class of 2020 right now, I'm imagining you all in front of me.
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Clad in caps and gowns tassels like red and yellow stars.
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This image is nebulous and celebratory, and it gives me joy and hope and a.
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Little bit of sadness, because, instead of all of you, I'm speaking to an empty.
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Theatre wishing it were filled in all honesty, I'm not exactly sure what I'm.
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Supposed to say, I'm not exactly sure which anecdote to insert here or how to.
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Thank every one of you for these past seven years, but I guess I'll tell you.
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This and it's the best I can do lately.
I've been thinking a lot about moving on.
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A symptom of growing up- I guess- and it brings me to something a friend recently.
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Said as we discussed this year's uncertainty and that of the next I'm.
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Going to miss the marshes the most she said lately, I've been thinking a lot.
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About moving on now, it's all I can think about of driving down dark stretches of.
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Us 17 wedged between briny, inlets and waffle house's drives.
I know we've all.
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Taken the cord grass and molting blue crabs, watery coffee, hashbrowns, a.
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Creamsicle sky, the salt cicadas honeysuckles, the blessed earhart's in.
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That one waitress, who always calls you honey and a southern accent, the.
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Consistency of butter and that rain that never seems to come, but when it finally.
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Does all at once there's a kind of creation in the marsh like when my.
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Sister and I were younger, plotting through the mud to try and find.
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This discarded couch and a giant pair of boots behind our house convinced that a.
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Giant lived there, our childhood filled with the same pungent smell the growing.
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Pains and the afterburn of salts, modeled, blue and green, and I think that's why.
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I'm going to miss it, I'm going to miss the same kind of creation.
I saw you do.
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Every day, your imagination, your music melting in the hallways, your acrylics.
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Across canvasses, your dresses meticulously sown.
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Dancing, ballets, the poetry and it all the stage you acted on and the.
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Characters you embodied creation, you'll find yourself coming back to again and.
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Again, because you're all artists and artists are needed, especially in this.
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World, especially now we'll find ourselves back here to one way or.
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Another and when you do roll down your windows, heat rising off the road, the.
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Halfmoon mouths of oysters de lightning in the clouds.
I will think of many.
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Things I will think of the marsh of adolescent adventures.
I will think of.
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The relief when it finally begins to rain when everything becomes sweet and.
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Familiar like honey, and I will think of all of you, the car moving along the road.
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As you do now, moving on the faint ghost of summer on your lips, everything blue.
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And green and honey: do you want your syrup on the side a brief moment when.
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You forget, where you're going, where you've been you the artists, somehow.
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Still driving somehow still driving forward with all the confusion and chaos.
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Of the last few months, I want to leave you with this something I recently read.
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In william faulkner is the sound and the fury, something I think embodies today.
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Maybe tomorrow or maybe even the night, you're back driving down u.s.
17 again.
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Years from now, even and you find yourself wedged between the inlets and.
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The waffle house faulkner writes some days and late august at home are like.
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This, the air, thin and eager like this, with something in its sad and nostalgic.
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And familiar, thank you.
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Do you remember the first time we met?
Oh god, oh you think I can forget that it.
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Today I wish I could have avoided altogether.
Oh come on, I'm not that bad.
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You're not now put good god, you used to be when I walked into school, and I saw.
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This weird tall, lanky girl, trying to get into my locker, I thought well jay-z's.
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Another freak I'm gonna have to deal with.
Well, I could say the same for you.
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You strutted in all gussied up in that pink dress.
You are all the time and all.
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I can think is here comes trouble and I was dead right.
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Okay, I tell you.
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Nothing has been the same for me since my dog died in june.
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Sonna hand, my mother's all our junkies, our fathers.
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All the trumps got me movin, naturally we're publishing of the three match.
I've.
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It will it be with stifling forget cinched and, as I read for men, he'll be.
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Back soon, you'll see you remember, you belong to me.
You'll be back time.
Will.
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Tell you'll remember that I served you well.
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I don't know.
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And here gary here's, where all this waiting's you to say slim's being really.
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Great, I was thinking to myself of god.
He could say something great right now and.
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Maybe that would change everything and maybe we can still make it work and I.
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Know I know that is unfair.
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Oh no, no, I I figured you were seeing someone.
I I saw your pics online.
No, no!
I.
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I think it's a good thing: I've I've been dating so yeah.
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Enormous 12s scream.
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You.
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I love you forever, even when we're not together.
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Where was it.
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This major has opened my eyes to so many opportunities and so many possibilities.
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I have always known that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up, but the fashion.
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Design major really helped me recognize my love of fashion.
In fashion there was.
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So much more work I could do physically.
I could.
I could get behind the scenes on.
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Essentially everything I made, I would be there for every step of the way.
Every.
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Seam, every prick of a needle, I would be there and I would get to see it go from.
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Merely being a pile of fabric to being an actual garment, this major has helped.
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Me define who I am as the person the fact that I can learn how to create and.
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Make something that was specific to me and my ideas in high school.
That was.
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Something I've never I've never seen before.
I really like how we all kind of.
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Developed our own styles over four years and I've just gotten really close with.
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Everyone and we're like a big family now and I get excited going to class and.
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It's just it's like interesting, seeing all of our improvement over the years.
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When I first came here, I didn't really know how to sew and now I'm sketching.
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And sewing and doing stuff I'd never thought I was ever capable of doing and.
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I'm really proud of that.
It's a great community as people you can talk to.
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People you can discuss your artwork with, and people that you trust with, like.
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Critiquing you and you also grow and learn together.
I was like I can see.
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Myself going to that school and be hot, seeing there, so that's why I choose to.
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Be there we're powerful women trying to show powerful women.
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I think matriarch is a super cool theme, especially now with the me2 movement.
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Highlighting women that are just really important in our society.
You have pop.
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Stars or scientists, you have writers, read environmental leaders and it's all.
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Unique my theme is rosie.
The riveter women in the workforce.
Anything needs to.
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Pin to them maybe miss imbrie speedor.
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My theme is sally ride.
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My name is chewy.
My theme is a hindu goddess kali and the seven chakras.
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My theme is rachel carson mother.
Remember my favors kathleen hanna.
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Congratulations: class of 2020.
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You.
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You.
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Good evening class of 2020, as I address a student lists, rosemarie meyers theater.
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I am reminded of just how much life you bring to these buildings.
It's a.
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Difficult time to be moving out into the world, as you say, goodbye to friends.
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You've known all your life, you have to check yourself to keep from embracing.
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Them as you continue to find your voice as a young adult, you find it muffled by.
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A mask and as you hurdle toward a future years in the making, you find it.
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Uncertain, perhaps even falling away before your eyes, you.
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Have faced this pandemic with grace and a quiet courage, while they're plugging.
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Away on your schoolwork from home, finding virtual ways to lift up others.
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Or creating masks for the health care workers risking their safety right here.
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In charleston, maybe is you're prepared to watch this video.
You wondered if you.
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Could get away with wearing pajamas to your own graduation and you were both.
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Pleased and a little saddened to find that the answer was yes.
I know this is.
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Not the june, you would have chosen for yourselves, but it is the june that has.
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Arrived 2020 remains your year and she waits to see what you will make of her.
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You are graduating from the school of the arts.
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You are no strangers to making your own beauty.
I've thought a lot today about.
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All the little miracles I would find if I investigated any of the art classrooms.
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The dresses made real from nothing but ideas.
The canvas is so gently filled.
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With color the sheet music, tired from the frequent touch of fingers, this.
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School is a testament to your talent and your drive.
Yes, you're living in a time.
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When toilet paper is hard to come by and protests are abundant, but you will find.
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A way to make this beautiful, it's who you are.
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All of you, we have a responsibility now more than ever, to reach out to each.
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Other and lend our support you've spent the last four years or.
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Maybe even seven thriving in a community of artists, but now we're going off on.
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Our own wild paths in the next community, you'll find will be the one you build.
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Yourself as artists, your visions of the world are powerful and it's your job to.
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Recognize the value of your perspective and consider the good you might do in.
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Sharing it, thank you to the essential workers and medical professionals who.
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Allow our world to continue to turn and a huge thank you to the parents, teachers.
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And administrators of soa you've guided us day after day year after year and.
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It's because of you that we're here today, even if here is a video feed where.
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Others might have lamented the loss of tradition.
The soa staff saw the.
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Opportunity to create new traditions and seize this opportunity with enthusiastic.
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Hands we, the student body, salute you for your efforts and your passion.
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You've brought light, sometimes literal laser lights to a dark time and now for.
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The difficult part saying goodbye, especially when I haven't had the chance.
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To say hello to most of you in months to quote the iconic leslie knope, let's.
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Break out a map, not the old, out-of-date one that shows where we've been, but a.
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Crisp new one that shows where we might go class of 2020.
You have officially.
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Completed high school, despite hurricanes, despite the.
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Occasional freeze and, of course, despite cove at 19 the world through everything.
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It could at you and you marched unyieldingly on now.
We find ourselves in.
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A waiting game straining to hear the sound of doors swinging open watching.
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For playgrounds to fill with more than caution tape, but as we wait, we've been.
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Gifted a stillness that is unusual for our culture.
This is a rare time in which.
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The world has slowed down for us and it should not be wasted just for a.
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Moment put thoughts of the future aside.
Stop take a breath.
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Rest and then do what artists do best make this beautiful.
Thank you.
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You.
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You.
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You.
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You.
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She looks okay.
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Must try to kill you couldn't catch as qd.
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No chicken strong.
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To.
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Salem tell us when your lord sunday, man.
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You'll see lusaka snake.
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Become.
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Neal solar to say, vidcon me.
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Oh.
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Boise.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Have you ever felt like nobody was there.
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Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere.
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Have you ever felt like you could disappear like you could fall?
No one.
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Would here so that I'm only feeling wash away.
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Maybe there's reason to you'll be okay.
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Cuz, when you don't feel strong enough to stand, you can reach reach out your hand.
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The day.
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Even when the dog comes crashing through, when you need a friend when you're.
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Broken on the ground, you will be found.
The sun comes streaming out, a challenge.
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Over eyes again,.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need friends.
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You so let the sun come streaming in.
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So a challenge arise.
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So let the sun stream it in cuz you'll, be chopped and you'll rise again, lift.
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Your head and look around you will be found when you see the individual images.
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Of our seniors, you will see the following distinctions: listed senior.
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Thesis soa credential and soa credential, with distinction, the soa senior thesis.
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Is a culminating project?
All of our artists have the opportunity to.
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Participate in during their senior year- and it is a requirement for the soa.
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Credential and the soa credential, with distinction artists who choose to.
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Participate in senior thesis are often paired with artists mentors in the.
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Community and work with our arts faculty to create a final, independent, exhibit.
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Composition concert performance or publication that fully showcases the.
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Honing of their voice and the comprehensive cultivation of their craft.
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Students who earn an soa credential completed the senior thesis volunteered.
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For at least 80 hours of community service achieved a minimum of a 3.0.
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Grade average and earned credit for an art or music history course to be.
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Awarded an soa credential with distinction, our seniors have met the.
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Requirements of the soa credential, plus an additional 80 hours in community.
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Service.
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Esso, a class of 2020, wherever you are viewing this ceremony, I invite you now.
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To stand with the power vested in me by the state of south carolina and the.
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Charleston county school board, I shan't and cooked verify that you, the.
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Candidates have satisfied the requirements of the south carolina high.
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School diploma at this time, I hereby certify these diplomas of the graduating.
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Class of charleston county school of the arts for 2020, you may now move your.
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Tassels congratulations, graduates.
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Inspiration to guide us into future days, we give on her hesa way.
Art is power.
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Come with me to watch people glory in its vision will stay.
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Seven years later- and I still remember my first day of soa vividly since then.
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I've discovered that soa is one of the most unique communities I'll ever have.
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The blessing of being a part of not only have my teacher shown me endless grace.
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And counsel I've been surrounded by some of the most talented students in all of.
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Ccsd we've watched one another stretch, grow taller and wiser, guiding each other.
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When needed, I know that in the years to come, I'll find myself looking back on my time at s away, somehow forgetting about the.
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Stench of the paper mill and the goose infestation only remembering the.
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Hundreds of hours we spent laughing and learning together, although no one needs.
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A reminder about the uncertain and unfortunate times we find ourself in.
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Today I want to emphasize how proud I am of our class for sticking it out and.
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Seeing the end of this year through, even if it was not, how any of us pictured.
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Graduation, our goodbyes at the beginning of this school year, thank you for tuning.
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In to today's virtual ceremony, anyway, and with that, we are graduates of school.
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Of the arts, congratulations y'all.
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You.