Episode 17 -- "It will never happen again. And I miss it."

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Here’s the story we discuss this week:

“My children are adults, but as you can see by their ages, I had them all very close together. My oldest was 5 when my fourth child was born.
It was a chaotic, riotous couple of decades. There was yelling, laughing, laundry, crying, school projects, summer vacations, holidays, so-many-questions, and all of it happened in such a condensed period of time. There was so much LIVING.
And then they were gone. All gone. They were out on their own. Their dad died. Everyone lives somewhere else.
We still get together and we all talk on chat threads and the laughter is there, but that intense, bump-up-against-each-other, kind of existence was way too short. It SEEMED to last forever, but it didn't. And it will never happen again. And I miss it.”