Not Letting Go

Not Letting Go

Noel Laflin

6-15-22

Following the graduation ceremony our family went out for Chinese food (my request) and afterwards I slept at my brother's apartment for a few hours before we hit the road for Yosemite.

Two nights later my brother saved my life by risking his own to pull me out of a near-death experience at Waterwheel Falls, into which I had fallen late at night.

There's not much that I remember about the graduation ceremony itself two days earlier, but having a brother's hand reach out to me in the most timely of fashion a mere forty-eight hours later, and not letting go, will never be forgotten.

It was, in retrospect, the finest graduation gift of all.