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[quote=Anonymous]We had a good cry as we drove away after drop off of our daughter. She was allowed a car on campus as a freshman and was going right into Rush week the next day. This was last year. Her campus is four hours away and near the coast so it is much warmer and more humid there. She ended up having issues with mold in her dorm that affected her health. Because of silly Covid policies she would see an off campus urgent care because any symptom of covid would mean 10 days of quarantine.

One Friday I drove to visit and she met me after her last class ended at 12:30.  We used it to have lunch and believe it or not we visited three apartment complexes because they start to fill up for the following year in October the prior year.  Kids don’t know what questions to ask so this was an education for her.

Instead of visiting campus for parents weekend, we spent the weekend at a city on the coast. Driving her back and dropping her off, she didn’t even look back as we drove away.

My kid walked to class from her dorm and nearly daily she would call and talk to me on her walks back to her dorm. This continued in both semesters.

One thing she mentioned around Presidents’ Day when we went back to the city on the coast was that she would love to get a letter in her on campus mailbox from time to time. Not just Amazon packages.  So from that point on, I wrote her two to three letters a week about the minutiae going on at home.  She cherished them and I saw them neatly stacked up in her desk at move out.

She leaves in just over a week for work and spirit week before rush begins the first week of August.  She is couch surfing since she cannot move in to her apartment until the 5th. We will drop off her stuff that weekend but won’t even see her as that is the height of rush week and bid day. She has every Friday off this semester but with the price of gas, we don’t expect to see her until ThanksgivingZ

While we will always be her parents, we have worked ourselves out of a job![/quote]

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