<p>This is Dear Abby’s column from August 11. </p>
<p>PARENTS CAN HELP KIDS PREPARE TO HANDLE ROOMMATE CONFLICTS
DEAR ABBY: I am a licensed counselor and adjunct faculty member in communications. I hope you will help me get a message out to parents who are sending their children off to college this fall. Every semester, I see kids who have a miserable college experience due to roommate conflicts. Some students become so distracted that their grades suffer, and some actually move back home.</p>
<p>entire column here: (August 11 if it doesn’t come up)</p>
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