I’m Not Crying, It’s Just My Allergies.

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“Don’t cry, Mom,” my youngest said to me recently. “He’ll be fine.”

We had just dropped our son off at college the day before. We just left him there, without knowing a soul. I know it’s dramatic, but I felt like we just deserted him, with only a few thousand people around. Admittedly, I was more of a mess when we dropped our daughter off six years earlier. Mostly because she was an emotional…