# I Cried in Minnesota
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Published: 2025-08-25
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**Summer 2025.**

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In the middle of nowhere in Minnesota. The rains pour and students glide about in their robes, while their families exchange kisses and damp embraces. It is a wet, uplifting summer morning in Northfield, MN, but the city hums with showers of blessings. This is a graduation weekend at Carleton College. My friend, Albert, will soon grace the podium with his charm.

Tears streak down my already-moist cheeks.

And not for the last time that day.

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See also: [Drizzled Stranger](https://adejola.com/writing/drizzled-stranger/index.md), [Eight and Still Alone](https://adejola.com/writing/eight-and-still-alone/index.md), [Burnout](https://adejola.com/writing/burnout/index.md)