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Day of triumph at Port Byron
PORT BYRON - Everyone who sat on the stage waiting to hear their name had to work hard and overcome obstacles to make it to the Port Byron Central School graduation ceremony on Sunday.
Phil Simkin called his foster daughter's graduation day “a big triumph.” In the two years Joanne Langendorf has lived with him, he's seen her grow more confident and mature. Both Simkin and Langendorf's uncle, Jim Gans, spent Sunday's ceremony in the overflow section going back and forth from watching it on a television or standing in the school's packed auditorium.
While everyone had personal hardships, the 82 students who make up the class of 2007 had to struggle collectively with the loss of one of their classmates.
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