About three hours later, homecoming parade participants begin lining up at the Mount Healthy City Schools offices on Harrison Avenue. Summer and Brittany take turns snapping each other's pictures. You guys are gonna crack up. Most of them ride in convertibles as the parade proceeds down a short stretch of Hamilton Avenue, then to the football field. By halftime, the Mount Healthy Fighting Owls are losing to Walnut Hills, 25-6.
Attention then shifts to the king and queen candidates gathered across the field.
She thinks back to the night four years ago, when her daughter was a freshman, and saw a queen crowned. And then, on a Friday the 13th, with a full moon overhead, a dream comes true. And maybe in someone who is watching, another dream is born. Danielle Thompson walks off the field. How does it feel, someone wants to know.