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Frank, reading your posts has brought back quite a few memories. When I sent my only child off to college, I had to take her to the airport with one suitcase and say good bye. She was going a week early to take part in a a week long outdoor program designed for incomng freshman. The university told her not to bring anything extra because she would not have access to her dorm room until after the trip. Everything had to be shipped to the dorm and was not to arrive before a certain date. Not the kind of send off that I ever expected to give her but she did want to take part in this outdoor bonding experience with some of her new classmates.The tears that flowed on the way home from the airport that day were major and she did call me later that day to let me know that she arrived, etc. It was hard letting go but we did remain close during and after the college years. While I was proud of her for getting into that school, I did envy my friends whose children went to school close to home.
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