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Elizabeth is graduating from high school. Tom is slated to give the commencement speech. She and her friends play a senior prank by dropping a water balloon on a strict teacher. The principal bans the group from the graduation ceremony. Elizabeth asks Abby to intervene with the principal on her behalf. Abby learns that there is more to the story. The elderly teacher slipped, broke her ankle and is in the hospital. Abby agrees with punishment and urges Elizabeth to think of someone besides herself. Eventually, Elizabeth does visit the teacher, truly sorry for what happened. Meanwhile, Joannie is graduating college. She's questioning whether she wasted the last four years: Should she continue on with school and get an advanced degree, should be take some time off, or can she get work as an actress? Joannie tries to talk to Abby who is preoccupied with Elizabeth 's immediate problem. Abby dismisses Joannie's concerns as being overly dramatic. Feeling rejected, Joannie lashes out at her step-mother. She says Abby has always avoided her because she reminds her of her mother, Joan. Joannie says her mother would have been there for her, unlike Abby. It's a realistic, raw moment. At the end of the third season it's nice to hear someone mention the children's mother. During life's milestones like graduation, the children would be missing their mother no matter how much they care for Abby.