To my graduating senior, who made me a senior

Dear eldest and most expensive daughter, Well, the time has finally come for you to graduate from high school, spread your wings and discover exciting, new ways to spend my cash in college. It seems like only yesterday that you were first hinting to your parents (especially me) that you were really the one in charge and that you just planned to humor us for the next 18 years...

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