Article August 21, 1989 Issue

Arrivals and departures

The early summer sunlight shone on the red-robed highschool graduates as they exited to Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance." Our daughter was among the graduates, heading for college in the fall.

But after eighteen years of loving and nurturing this child, how could I part from her?

A kind of low-level panic had set in about April. Amid all the goings-on—the parties, award ceremonies, high-school senior breakfast, prom night, graduation—there lurked for me a sad realization that our eldest child would soon be leaving home.

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