The view from the prom

“Of all the signs that things are getting back to normal,” said Pat Muir in the Yakima, Wash., Herald-Republic, “the one that really got me was seeing high school kids in formal wear at the grocery store.” Because the rite vanished last spring, “when I saw some girl in a sequin dress in the Safeway, it jolted me.” At Wapato High School’s May 22 event, promgoers had to wear masks and line up for temperature