Synopsis

Lena struggled to maintain the high grades required for her engineering scholarship. For an English assignment, she composed an essay about her father, and Professor Foster was so taken with it that he submitted it to a competition. She won, securing a journalism scholarship in the process. Lena felt deeply embarrassed when her father appeared at the awards ceremony; the man who arrived bore no resemblance to the Vietnam veteran and former Black Panther she had portrayed in her essay. He was, in