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BACCALAUREATE 2025

Graduating seniors pause for reflection and celebration, recognizing that how we love is how we heal — and that to be seen is to be loved.

By Bates College

May 29^th, 2025

Footnotes Produced by the Bates Communications and Marketing Office, with photography by Phyllis Graber Jensen and text by Jay Burns

© 2025 Bates College

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