I took my daughter on a ‘collegemoon’ to Europe. It made my anticipatory grief about her leaving for school even stronger.0

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• August 25, 2026

My daughter is heading off to college in Southern California in late September, and I’m doing what I suspect many parents do when a child reaches this milestone: trying to be genuinely excited while quietly wondering how I’m supposed to get used to an emptier house. So last month, I took her on a “collegemoon”