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Empty Nest Elicits Mixed Emotions

Sending your last child off to college is bittersweet

by: Debbie Galant, from: AARP, September 2, 2010

En español │When it comes to the nuclear family, I'm hopelessly sentimental. I spent the whole summer before I went off to college mourning the fact that our family would never be the same. If my parents were feeling the same way, they hid it well, or at least I didn't notice, and my younger brother was downright hostile to my proactive nostalgia. "Get over it," he said simply. … Back to Article

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