The moral in the story is that dreams can come true.

I am speechless -- not a state I find myself in often. As parents, we watch our children work towards their goals. Sometimes they struggle and fall down. We are proud of their accomplishments but also of the path they took to their achievements.

It hasn’t always been an easy or even a straight path. But it has always been a path propelled by passion and an intense sense of direction.

Yesterday that passion, intensity and achievement was recognized. As the Bulldogs fight song started to play welcoming Jaclyn to the Yale class of 2018, she screamed and I lost my words (which I must say have yet to really come back).

Dreams really can come true.