Sending your eldest child off to college unearths a swirl of emotions. Like pull-out-a-thesaurus-because-you're-running-out-of-names-for-them-all emotions. It's not as if we didn't see this coming; in a sense you prepare for this day from the moment they're born. But it's still a shock to the system that is the family dynamic.We dropped Ben off at college last week and it was a strange combination of elation, pride, anxiety, melancholy, excitement, and the feeling that we'd just lost a limb. [...]
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