Both of my boys are going to band camp today. In just a few weeks, they’ll both be marching at halftime.
Aaron is a rookie this year. The calendar tells me I was a band rookie 33 years ago this month. I was two months older than Aaron is now when I first went to band camp.
We’ve been closer to the ends of their childhoods than the beginnings for some time now, but the feeling is especially acute today.
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