Wow.
Have moved him in. He's in a lunch meeting and Mom is finishing putting together his room, like she's done for the four others before him. I've never really felt anything but excitement for all of my kids, but this one is kinda getting me. He's the last, the youngest. The kid I had the pleasure of coaching in one sport for 10 years, and the one I've enjoyed watching play for many more years in another sport.
Leaving him in a small school in Mississippi, he has 3 hats he brought with him. A soccer hat for his college, a yellow goofy YOLO hat just to mess around, and his blue UK hat he had when we took our boys trip to Keeneland, to Commonwealth to see UK play Mississippi State, to the Blue-White Game, and to Churchill Downs. We still talk about it and wanting to do it again someday.
Wow. So many memories and he's grown.
Will miss him like crazy.
I'm sitting in the car getting the dust out of my eyes before saying see you later. We will be back to visit numerous times, but it will not be the same.
Now where are my dark sunglasses?
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