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Freedom 2026: The Real COVID Babies Graduate! The high school graduating class of 2026 has finally arrived at the finish line. Four years of classes, dances, exams, social media drama , and approximately seventeen thousand warnings that, "these are the most important years of your life." But let's be honest. This class is different. These are the real COVID babies. Not the toddlers who learned to identify hand sanitizer before they learned colors. Not the college students who spent one semester attending economics lectures in pajama pants. No, the Class of 2026 entered adolescence just as the world collectively decided to become a science experiment . One minute they were in middle school. The next minute, they were staring at teachers frozen on Zoom screens while somebody's dog barked into a microphone and somebody else's little brother wandered into the background, dressed like a pirate. They were told they were living through history. Then they wer...