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Finding Joy
Letting go when your son starts a new life abroad
Watching him move to the same country where I attended university, I felt a strange symmetry of time.
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It is the start of a new season, both in nature and the writer's life, as her son enters university.
PHOTO: SELENA LING
Selena Ling
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When the plane touched down on a cool autumn morning, I felt a quiet shiver of recognition.
The air carried the same damp crispness I remembered from decades ago, when I first arrived in this very country as a student. I had been young, uncertain, eager to carve out my own independent life beyond home.
