EDMONDS, Wash. —
Mason Hoover walked over to Arlene Ray and asked her to dance at prom.
They swayed, her senior citizen arms around the high school senior's shoulders. When the music stopped, they held hands, waiting for the next song.
"Do you wanna dance?" Hoover asked for the second time.
"Do you?" she responded.
"It's up to you," he said.
She nodded. "I don't get to dance very often," she replied.
When the band started, so did they.
An hour and a half later, Ray was still dancing.
Ray, all dressed up with a corsage pinned to her floor-length blue dress, spent the night dancing with men five times younger than her. The Sunrise Senior Prom was hosted by a dozen students in the Edmonds-Woodway High School DECA marketing leadership class. About 40 seniors from Sunrise Senior Living in Edmonds attended the holiday-themed event.
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"I don't get to dance very often..."-
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I hope someone does that for me when I'm old........
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old people can be kinda smelly sometimes
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When my Grandma was in the nursing home, they had a Prom and she was voted Prom Queen!!
She was probably in her 90's at the time![[smilie=hearts.gif]](./images/smilies/hearts.gif "hearts")
She was probably in her 90's at the time
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I wonder if she has a sister.
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The older I get, the more I really think that 'old folks' are awesome. And so are SOME whippersnappers. 
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Me, too ...pbans wrote:I hope someone does that for me when I'm old........
Oh, wait ... I am old ...
Great story!
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springparrot wrote:When my Grandma was in the nursing home, they had a Prom and she was voted Prom Queen!!
She was probably in her 90's at the time
So there's still hope that someday I'll get the f'n tiara I so richly deserve?????
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I wonder if any of the boys got lucky!