孩子总有一天会长大，也会离开父母的怀抱。作为母亲，当孩子18年后长大成人了，即将去上大学 了，你们做好心理准备了吗？
"They grow up too soon," everyone told me. Eighteen years later, I finally understand what they meant。
It's nearly the end of summer break and my son goes out with friends. Ten minutes after he leaves home, I receive his text: Here. It's the same message I've received hundreds of times before -- our agreed-upon shorthand to reassure me, and probably him, in some still-unexamined way, that he has arrived safely at his destination. In a matter of days he'll head to college, and this routine, along with many others that have framed our days and nights, will come to an end. Reading that text triggers images stored safely away in my memory, a tiny flip book of our lives together。
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