This has nothing to do with baseball, but tonight, my 14-year-old daughter's best friend called to say that there's a 95% chance her family will be moving this summer to Nebraska, due to a promotion her dad anticipates getting. These girls have been best friends since 1st grade and live right behind each other; we have a gate in the fence between our backyards. My daughter's friend is like a second daughter to me. She lives at our house just as much as our own and goes to church with us each Sunday. (Her own family does not go to church.)
My daughter has been in tears all night and I am choked up as I write. When I was growing up, my best friend (from 1st grade on) moved to another city when we were 13. It was so hard for us and it's incredibly difficult to anticipate these two girls having to go through the same thing.
Thank goodness there is now technology to help them stay connected -- cell phones, email, web cams, instant messaging. But there will be no more volleyball games in the backyard, sleepovers, trips to the water park, shopping expeditions, etc. on a regular basis.
It's hard to think that I will be losing my son (to college) and my "second daughter" all in the same summer.
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