As a parent, watching your children graduate – be it high school or college – is truly an unforgettable milestone moment.
Anyone who’s been through it will remember the overflowing pride, the untapped excitement that comes from seeing your not-so-little one finish a chapter in their lives where they’ve fought so hard to attain a certain goal.
Those positive feelings must have been ten-fold for Texas dad Dennis Roach in 2018, as his daughter’s high-school graduation gave him the opportunity to recreate a photo taken back in 2000 – and the result was enough to warm hearts all over the world…
Dennis was fortunate to have his infant daughter, Tori, present for his high school graduation in 2000. At the moment, the duo posed for a snapshot in which Dennis kissed his daughter – the perfect memento reminder of his special day.
Fast forward to 2018, and it was Tori Roach’s turn to mark the moment when she finished high school. Needless to say, Dennis was there to share the milestone, and the pair had the brilliant idea of recreating the photo they had taken eighteen years previous.
Tori lies across her father’s arms in the revised version, kissing her cheek once more. She shared a side-by-side snapshot of herself from 2000 and 2018 on Twitter, but no one could have predicted how wonderfully it would be received.
“18 years later,” Tori captioned her post. It soon went viral, accumulating almost 150,000 likes and 57,000 reposts.
The comments field was filled with people expressing their joy at the photo.
“Ugh this is just the sweetest,” one person wrote.
Another added: “One of the best pictures I have seen … I wish you and your family the best of luck.”
“Wow lovely…” a third said.
The detail that many people saw and couldn’t help but comment on was undoubtedly the most fascinating aspect of the two photographs. Specifically, Tori’s father Dennis does not appear to have aged at all in the years since the two images were taken.
“How old is your father,” mused one person. “He looks ageless.”
“I think you froze your father until you grow up,” another joked.
“Damn did you dad age any?” a third quipped.
Tori couldn’t believe the attention her post received, and was later forced to clarify that her dad, aged 37 at the time of her high school graduation, wasn’t single.
Furthermore, she spoke to People of Dennis’s pride.
“I woke up and I had a ton of notifications. People had started sharing and liking and commenting all over again. My dad was really proud. We’re from a small town, so nothing like this really ever happens. And he was like, ‘That’s so cool!’”
She added: “It brought me and my dad closer in a way because we could share that moment, and I feel that not many other people get to experience that.”
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