I was also a leaver many years ago, Janie. Though, in retrospect, it turned out to be the long term best for all. I don't dwell on it. But, when I do, I very clearly recall the many mixed and gut-renching emotions at the time (as clear as if it were today) . My departure was on a dark and cold evening during a snow storm. When at the end of the street, I stopped my car and looked back in my rear view mirror. I saw my tire tracks as the oly ones in the snow. A lonely and empty feeling came over me, as it hit me hard that I was on a one way voyage away - never to return to a life I had known - with both very good and very bad memories.
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