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08-19-2006, 11:09 PM
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Rite of Passage
My husband and I took our firstborn to college today. I cannot believe I haven't cried yet--give me a few days! A photographer for an area newspaper took a candid picture of us while we were saying goodbye. He asked for our names, so I'm assuming he will put it in the paper.  Maybe his film will mysteriously disappear! 
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08-20-2006, 08:52 AM
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Oh, MSKKG! That hurts so much, doesn't it? When my husband and 2 of the other kids took our oldest to college 6 years ago, the other 2 came back and reported, "Dad cried!"
So today, he'll be taking #6 off to college, although he'll probably be singing. "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye." jk! But #1's adolescence was easy and #6's has been, um, interesting to say the least!
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08-20-2006, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by carnation
So today, he'll be taking #6 off to college
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WOW - just wow... I can't believe that we've been friends for so long that #6 is now leaving the nest. I still haven't gotten over the stories from when the baby was... well, a BABY! LOL!
MSKKG - best of luck in getting through the next few days 
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08-20-2006, 02:01 PM
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Our youngest just graduated from college in May with a 4.0.
He left for New York last tuesday to live.
Our granddaughter begins kindergarten here tomorrow.
Time waits for no man. Or woman.
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08-20-2006, 02:08 PM
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Congrats to you and your son, DeltAlum! You're right, blink your eyes and they're gone!
And it will even happen that fast with your son, AXOAlum! Just yesterday our #6 was a baby but you saw her last December doing the shimmy down the path a few feet in front of the bride and groom!
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08-20-2006, 03:34 PM
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So we had a deeply moving moment as our college-bound daughter descended the stairs to leave for college with her dad. Her brothers leapt from behind bushes and drenched her with their squirt guns.
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08-20-2006, 03:43 PM
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Congrats everyone who have kids who are now claiming independence...
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08-20-2006, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
Our youngest just graduated from college in May with a 4.0.
He left for New York last tuesday to live.
Our granddaughter begins kindergarten here tomorrow.
Time waits for no man. Or woman.
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That's quite an accomplishment! Congratulations and good luck to him.
Aren't brothers wonderful, carnation?!? I'm sure #6 will remember that tender moment whenever she gets homesick.
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08-20-2006, 09:02 PM
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Like I'll never forget when I flew home from college the first Christmas...
I had been away for 4 months--I hadn't seen anyone--my little brothers ran up to me at the airline gate and yelled happily, "When are you going back?"
My parents kept saying that they didn't mean it that way but I think they did. 
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