Prom is supposed to be one the most memorable nights of your life. It might be the first time a young woman goes all out, having her hair and makeup done up to the nines and decked out in a princess-like gown. For young men, it might be the first time getting properly dappered up in a tux and an excuse to experience a drive around town in a luxurious limo. For everyone, it’s a rite of passage. You get to say farewell to high school and look forward to new beginnings that are just over the horizon with fun, friends, and dancing until dawn.
For the Class of 2020, however, prom is going to be different. With the world in crisis and public spaces closed down in the name of curbing the spread of disease, the prom that grads every other year before this have known just can’t happen. There will be no giggle-filled limo rides this year, no group pics of friends in their finest lined up together, and no head-on-shoulder slow dances.
But that’s not to say that there can’t still be a prom.