After a year when nothing had gone right, when learning had been mostly online in their rural town of Bassett in southern Virginia, Flanagan and a small army of parent volunteers hoped to make the T-shirt’s prophecy come true. For the Bassett High School seniors — who had watched every other American high school milestone slip away — it was their first and last prom, a chance to grab hold of at least one teenage tradition before it slipped away, too.

Source: Washington Post May 07, 2021 15:22 UTC