My daughter's upcoming move to college made me realize I wasn't emotionally ready to change her bedroom.
The author's daughter (not pictured) will be leaving home for college in the summer.
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My 18-year-old daughter starts college as a freshman this summer.
It will free up her bedroom, which I'd planned to turn into my home office.
I changed my mind because I needed more time to accept her leaving home.
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"I’m learning to love her differently, perhaps more deeply and from a place of gratitude, not of need and expectation."
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