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    Fly away home

    May 12, 2021 3 minutes

    My daughter was ready to leave home, but I wasn’t ready to let her go. I don’t think of myself as a clingy mother, but I felt a new ache when I kissed Bianca goodbye in mid-February and left her arranging her new room in her university hall. I stopped at the door and looked back, holding on to that last glimpse of my middle daughter as she hung her clothes up on a rack.

    The flight home from Dunedin felt long.

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