After Waiting 80 Years A 97-Year-Old Woman Finally Got Her Wish To, Go To Prom

After Waiting 80 Years A 97-Year-Old Woman Finally Got Her Wish To Go, To Prom

As a teenager Henel Danis could not afford to go to her own prom– but donned her best ball gown to go to her granddaughter’s prom as her date at Pilgrim High School Warwick, Rhode Island ‘I couldn’t keep up with the kids (when she was in high school). I didn’t really fit in. Danis told WJAR

We were in the middle of a depression and money was scarce.’ But for decades, she wanted to go to prom and her granddaughter, Julie Huddon, felt obliged to make that happen, giving her grandmother a ‘promposal’ on a paper heart that said: ‘Grammie, will you be my prom queen and go to senior prom with me?.’ Huddon told WJAR: ‘I got a crown for her and wrote her a note, asking her to be my date to prom. She’s mentioned a couple times about not being able to go to her prom…As soon as I gave it (the promposal) to her, she loved it.

The prom is not the only bucket list item Huddon is helping her grandmother check off. She has been helping Danis fullfil as many wishes as she can as she nears 100-years-old. Huddon said: ‘We’ve been doing a lot of things that she has said she wanted to do. She sat on Santa’s lap for the first time in December. I never know about her she’s full of surprises.’ At the prom, Danis was named the honorary prom queen and danced to the ‘Hully Gully,’ the ‘Cha-Cha Slide,’ and ‘Cupid Shuffle.’ ‘Well, if they know how to do the “Hully Gully,” I’ll do it again,’ Danis said before heading to the prom.

Huddon even bought a orchid dress for her grandmother and the two took a trolley to the dance. Danis said: ‘It’s a nice dress, a long dress. She says, “you’re going to prom,” so here I am.’

Source: Metro.uk