Well, Barky is about to try the jumping off the edge of the nest routine when she goes to SFO for her first semester at the Conservatory; and we're already feeling the hollow echoing rattle of the empty nest; ten days from now she starts her adventure, but she's in some respects already out there stretching her wings.

So maybe we'll spend more time on the phone, huh, Sis??

I concur about the oblivious-about-parents part -- I was so involved in my own adventures it never occurred to me I was slighting theirs!

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