Downsized Mom
Daughter heads for college. Mom adjusts.
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3 min readFeb 21, 2023
In the weeks before we dropped Elizabeth, our oldest daughter, off at college, I kept remembering her as a little girl. And crying.
Mom, you’re being stupid again.
I knew how much I’d miss her. She’d been my job for the last 18 years, after all. And I don’t even get a retirement party. Just a tuition bill. I’m being…
