__16__. I began to accept that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she visits.

　　I __17__ myself thinking of when I held her in my arms sitting in a chair by my wife’s hospital __18__. One day old. So small, so beautiful, so perfect, so totally reliant on her new parents. My wife changed from the day I drove this little baby home from the __19__. I saw myself differently that day, too.

　　The last few days __20__ she left for college, I touched her arm, her face—anything, __21__ that when my wife and I returned home, she would not be with us and there would be nothing to touch. I had so much to say, but no words with which to say it.

　　Suddenly she looked up, __22__ me staring at her, which caused her to say to her mother, “Mom. Dad’s looking at me funny.” She then said, “It’ll be fine, Dad. I’ll be home from school soon.” I told her she would have a __23__ year. But I said little else. I was __24__ that I would say something too small for what I was feeling, so I only held on to our goodbye hug a little longer, a little tighter.

　　My wife’s eyes followed her as she left us. Mine did not. I __25__ she hadn’t gone. I knew that the life she was going towards was exciting and wonderful. I remembered what the world looked like to me when everything was __26__.

　　On the way back home, my eyes were wet, my heart sore, and I realized that my __27__ was changed forever.

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