For Clemson University President Jim Clements, watching his daughter sprint across the graduation stage to receive her diploma — only to accidentally topple them both as she leapt into his arms for a hug — was a "magical" moment.
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00:00She literally just like sprinted like that was I've never seen her run that fast. It was
00:04magical. When Grace was about one and a half we thought she would never even crawl. She would
00:11she could barely move. We didn't think she would crawl, walk, run or talk or at least we knew there
00:16was a chance she might not. We were always very optimistic and hopeful but I would put like a
00:21little cheerio on the ground in front of her just to try to get her to move. So the fact that she
00:26could run across the stage and tackle me and there was a time where I don't even know she's
00:33going to crawl but let alone run and I bet you those 6,000 other students or whatever the number
00:38was they would have loved to have run across the stage. She just she's pure. She was full of joy.
00:44She worked so hard for it and it was the excitement and the build-up and the momentum and the so she
00:50literally just like sprinted like that was I've never seen her run that fast. So it was it was
00:56magical. I mean it was um it was absolutely beautiful magical. Um I would do it a million
01:02times over. I would let her tackle me a thousand million times over. Um to see the joy in her face
01:08that she did it. She did it. What do you call him now?
01:12Boobios. Butterfingers. Here's you.
01:16I tried my best Grace. Dad loves you. I tried my best.