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When She Went Away
The hug was supposed to last for a very long time. I had no idea till when. I had dreaded this moment and it was here. No amount of anticipating what it would feel like had helped because it was just not what it was. My yet-to-be 18-year-old daughter was on her way to college all the way to the United States. It was her dream to secure a good scholarship and be able to study there. She had worked hard for it, and she deserved to go. But deep down my heart was a rollercoaster of emotions. It was the first time in 17 years that she was going…
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Let’s Go!
I am 46 years old and for the past 18 years of my life, I have been a hands-on mother. As dramatic as it may sound, my life changed overnight. I had been preparing to be an empty nester for a while. Isn’t it true that we prepare our children and ourselves for just this all our lives – to let them go and to let them fly?! I had imagined it to be hard, I had imagined it to be excruciatingly painful and I had imagined myself unable to cope. But like they say when you imagine the worst, the worst doesn’t seem like one anymore! There are so…
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When She Went Away
