We used to laughingly say about my daughter "here she comes, dragging her debt behind her." I remember when she arrived home from college. She, too, had to find a job and travel quite a ways back and forth. Then she began to build up her savings again. It was bittersweet as I remember. She was no longer a teenager but sometimes wanted to be one around us. Other times she would be an adult....interesting age, for sure. She came back a couple of times before making the big break and leaving the nest for good.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane ~ Jimmy Buffett