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“Hugged my son today I'm not used to hugging up”

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“It’s hard to describe, this feeling of seeing your kids spending time together like adults, meeting up again after being out there in the world like free agents. There’s something giddy and unreal about it. I knew that boy when he was afraid of strangers. I knew them both before they knew how to talk.”

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“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”

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