Thursday, October 1, 2026

What’s in a name?

Emotional viral video of graduation name reveal lands Granbury family on national news

Posted 7/10/25

The saying goes, “you can’t choose your family,” but for Joe Leal and Sterling Dunagan-Leal, this notion couldn’t be farther from the truth. For the last 11 years, Joe has chosen every day to step up and be the father his stepchildren deserved, and he was repaid on graduation night when his oldest stepdaughter, Sterling, for the first time, was introduced and walked across the stage as a Leal.

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