A Cincinnati man in recovery from alcohol use disorder is walking across a graduation stage Thursday, and the diploma he thought he never earned has been waiting for him all along.
Shawn Hughes, 58, is a resident at Prospect House, a long-term men’s spiritual recovery center in Price Hill. For decades, Hughes believed he had not graduated from Woodward High School after missing three days of summer school in 1987.
“I was absent from school those three days they gave me, so I assumed that I didn’t graduate,” Hughes said…