My Daughter’s Classmates Held Prom in Her Hospital Room Because She Couldn’t Attend Due to Her Illness – Then One of Them Handed Me an Envelope and Said, ‘Here’s the Real Reason We’re Here’

“Mom, promise you’ll do my hair that night,” she’d say, even back when she was in the fifth grade.

“I promise, baby. I’ll do your hair for every prom you ever have.”

Now her hair was gone, and the magazine pictures were still taped to the mirror at home, waiting.

I sat by her hospital bed that afternoon, watching her doze.

“I promise, baby.”

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