Nobody threw him a party. When he graduated with a law degree from UCLA, there wasn’t a crowd of family members or friends waiting for him with balloons and banners.
His daughter was there. And that was enough for him. The little girl, wearing a simple polka-dot dress and a little bee backpack slung over her shoulder, picked up the phone and took on her job with a seriousness that melts anyone’s heart: she would be the photographer for the day. As he posed standing on the grass, wearing his cap and blue suit and holding a bouquet of red roses, she stood in front of him, raised the phone and made sure not a single moment slipped by unnoticed.
A woman named Elena, who was there accompanying her brother at his own graduation, saw the scene and took a photograph from a distance. Later, she shared the image on Twitter from her account, @elenaxlugo. The photograph captured that very special moment: a little girl proud of her dad, determined to preserve the memory of his graduation forever.