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  • When You Turn 50 And Your Daughter Leaves For College In The Same Summer

    Susan Buttenwieser June 13, 2016 Empty Nest

    You have been alive for half a century, born in the middle of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam, before Stonewall even happened or Roe v. Wade. Your first daughter unpacks her things in her dorm room, navigates the cafeteria.

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