Originally Posted by
Gonnachange 
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One major thing that mitigates the emotions of when either of them leave is the ease of communication. Between cell phones and internet based programs like Skype keeping in touch is easy and cheap. Nothing like when I was in college in the late 70's. Freshman and sophomore years I lived in a dorm with about 75 kids and one pay phone. Wanna call home, get your quarters handy. :-) I speak to each of my kids almost every day and even when my daughter spent her previous academic year on your side of the Atlantic we frequently talked and skyped without costing me a mortgage payment. Bottom line, it's all good.
I had to chuckle as I was recently telling my 10 year old about being on a dorm floor with 50 women and one pay phone in college. She could not wrap her mind around it!
I especially loved the dry erase boards we all had on the outside of our doors so that phone messages could be left if we weren't there.
Inevitably good news would be left in the tiniest font..
"Your chemistry teacher called you got an A"
While earth shattering news was left in billboard size letters…
"Your date called, can make it, his car broke"..
