My family moved all over the world when my dad was in the military, Massachusettes, New Hampshire, Dad was in Korea, then the whole family went to France, Dad was flying all over Europe and the last AF base was Mobile, Alabama. Mum took us to New Hampshire when she left Dad and when they reconciled we ended up in Toronto, Canada and finally in Salamanca,N.Y. When I got out of high school I was still traveling. I did a tour of eastern Canada and ended up in Toronto. I talked to my mom on the phone a lot till I was so homesick and depressed I returned to Salamanca.
Mum never told me how much it hurt to see me go. It never occured to me that it hurt her till I am faced with my daughter moving away from me.
My mother gave Howard a poem to encourage him when I went to Florida.
If you love something,
Set it free.
If it comes back,
It is your's.
I framed it and it hangs in my house to remind me of that time in my life.
There have been a few times in my life that I have missed my mother to talk to and this is one of them.
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