10 October 2010
LETTING GO
10/12/10 10 Filed in: FAMILY
My wife, Lori and I just dropped our youngest child, Jake, off at college--at UCLA. This was a pretty traumatic experience for us. There was weeping and wailing and uncontrollable sobbing--and Lori was upset too.
The opening scene from the movie, “Father of the Bride,” has always made me misty-eyed as Steve Martin describes his feelings after his daughter’s wedding: “You fathers will understand. You have a little girl, an adorable little girl, who looks up to you and adores you in a way you never could have imagined. I remember how her little hand used to fit inside mine, how she used to love to sit on my lap and lean her head against my chest. She said I was her hero. Then the day comes when she wants to get her ears pierced and wants you to drop her off a block before the movie theater. The next thing you know she wants to wear eye shadow and…high heels. From that moment on you are in a constant state of panic. You worry about her going out with the wrong kind of guys…Then she gets a little older and you quit worrying about her going out with the wrong guy, and you worry about her meeting the right guy. And that’s the biggest fear of all, because then you lose her.”
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The opening scene from the movie, “Father of the Bride,” has always made me misty-eyed as Steve Martin describes his feelings after his daughter’s wedding: “You fathers will understand. You have a little girl, an adorable little girl, who looks up to you and adores you in a way you never could have imagined. I remember how her little hand used to fit inside mine, how she used to love to sit on my lap and lean her head against my chest. She said I was her hero. Then the day comes when she wants to get her ears pierced and wants you to drop her off a block before the movie theater. The next thing you know she wants to wear eye shadow and…high heels. From that moment on you are in a constant state of panic. You worry about her going out with the wrong kind of guys…Then she gets a little older and you quit worrying about her going out with the wrong guy, and you worry about her meeting the right guy. And that’s the biggest fear of all, because then you lose her.”
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