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leaving home
--Oct 5, 2004
Whoa – this is weird. We’ve been
planning for so long, and now we’re actually going. We’ve
been checking things off various lists for months, and strangely,
there’s nothing left to check off. We taped up the box with
the last of our city clothes and said goodbye to Chloe (our cat)
and the apartment. (In case you’re wondering, our friends
the VanHuisens will be living there while we’re gone.)
Then came the last in a long series of farewells
(and lunches, and coffees, and quick we’ll-just-stop-by-for-a-minute
get-togethers). We hugged Jeremy, who had kindly agreed to take
us to the airport in the middle of the day, making our departure
much nicer than an impersonal taxi drop. Leaving our friends and
family for over a year is really difficult.
We expected that when this day arrived, we
would be so excited that we wouldn’t be able to contain
ourselves. It turns out that we are really excited, but to our
surprise, also really scared. As we entered the airport, we held
hands and smiled nervously at each other as if to say, “Well,
here we go – there’s no turning back now.” And
we were off to London.
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