My dad, not a sentimental sort, reminded me this morning via email of Robert McCloskey's words in The Time of Wonder, "a little bit sad about the place you are leaving, a little bit glad about the place you are going" (he remembered: happy about the place you’re going to, sad about the place you’re leaving.)
My mother often read that book to my sister and me, along with his other books.
I've thought about that phrase a lot over the last couple of months.
She's been gone for a long time, now, sadly, and wasn't married to my dad for quite a long time before that, but I still have the book.
I'm glad about the place I'm going to, but still a little bit sad about the place I'm leaving.
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