When your child grows up and heads off to university, letting go can be hard.
"I have had worse partings, but none that so / Gnaws at my mind still."
So writes Cecil Day-Lewis in his poem "Walking Away", written while watching his eldest son head off to school. If a child's first day at school is significant, when they leave home for university can feel like an irrevocable life change for you. Knowing how to say goodbye, and dealing with the sense of loss that can follow, is part of
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