JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Seniors won’t get the ending to their high school careers they had planned. Parents won’t see their children’s achievements celebrated in a big ceremony. That disappointment hits three times as hard in one Jeffersonville High School family.
Haley, Cody and Bradley Foster have always been on the same timeline. As triplets, they grew up together, went to school together and sometimes people even thought they were each other.
“I’m always going to be ready for when I walk around the corner and someone looks at me and says ‘hey Cody’, sometimes I just roll with it,” Bradley said.
Soon they will go their separate ways. Haley will go to the University of Evansville, Cody to Ball State, and Bradley to the Pipe Fitters Union in Louisville.
“It’s going to be weird not being together,” Haley said.
But before they leave home, they were looking forward to making some final memories together.
“I was just really devastated because I was really looking forward to graduation and all the senior activities,” Haley said.
Bradley didn’t get his senior baseball season. Cody didn’t get to perform in his final play. All three won’t get to walk across the stage this spring.
“That has always been a dream of mine, to see all three of my kids graduate one after the other,” the triplets’ mom Larra said.
The reality of the situation has been three times as tough for Larra and her husband, who have been waiting for this spring for 18 years with their only three children.
“In my case I have no other children to experience a high school graduation with,” Larra said. “My husband and I, our whole life has just revolved around our kids.”
Even though their experience didn’t end the way they hoped, the Fosters are all ready for the next stage of life, the first one they’ll experience without each other.
The Greater Clark County School District has not announced plans for an alternative graduation yet. The Foster parents are hoping to see at least some sort of ceremony for the kids.
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