Letting them go and why it's hard

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<p>Really nice essay from Grown and Flown about graduations</p>

<p><a href=“Knowing My Sons a Little Less”>http://grownandflown.com/knowing-sons-little-less/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Wow.
Our DS is turning 28 this week, happy and independent.
Meanwhile, this article STILL resonates with me.
Thanks for posting it.</p>

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<p>Yes - thanks for sharing and pretty spot on. Think this would be appreciated on the Empty Nest thread too.</p>

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<p>What a beautiful article! </p>

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<p>This was great. I would actually like to show it to my daughter, who is just finishing her junior year of high school. She doesn’t understand at all why I want to know about her life and why I am sad for the years in which she needed me on a more regular basis. My son, who’s already in college, seems to get it more.</p>

<p>I loved this line: “Nothing about them ever stopped being fascinating to me.” That is exactly how I feel.</p>

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<p>Oh man . . . that nailed it. </p>

<p>I just sent it to a friend whose only child, a son, is leaving for college this fall.</p>

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<p>I had to go get a kleenex…</p>