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Parenting a grown-up child is a lovely time

It involves meandering chats, easy silences between sentences, and a new position as 'adviser emeritus'

Life roughs everyone up a little, even our kids, but struggle can help them see you better. PHOTO: PEXELS
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Happiness is a golf swing at first light, De Niro bleeding in Raging Bull, the uneven breath at the end of a run, Aaron Sorkin repartee, a golden-brown omelette, a postcard from Patagonia. Happiness is sometimes a place but it can also be a time.

Like 3pm, or thereabouts, on Wednesdays.

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