From My Window: Graduation a great time—with a touch of reality

by Sean McMahon on May 22, 2015

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This Saturday, Rio Blanco’s two high schools are going to turn a bunch of teenagers into adults and turn them loose on the world. Chances are pretty good, I’d say, that the world will be a better place because of it.

On one side of the equation is the reality that these young adults either are or will soon be on their own—legally and, oftentimes, literally living their own lives. They can…