So as I mentioned, it's kind of the season of transitions.

And whenever we hit like August or even mid August,

whatever, it says the season of goodbyes as well.

I don't know if you remember just even this time when you first

like moved off to college or when you first like had to leave home.

Or I just know that again, whenever it comes to August,

I always think of like my brother went off to the military

or when I went off to college.

We have a student right now who graduated and she's going

to the same mission field that I was part of.

And I remember we left, I left I think this exact week

back in like 1998 to 1997, I think it was.

And it was just, I remember it's not just the journey, right?

It's not just that, that whole thing, it's them.

You remember the night before?

The night before you had to leave.

There's all the packing, the last minute planning.

There's all the nerves that just, just,

because you know, you want to be alone, but you don't want to be alone.

You want to talk to people, but you don't want to talk to anybody.

And my family does this thing.

I may be a lot of people to do it, but we have like a good buy meal.

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