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EMPTY NEST

David Beardsley, describes the empty nest years this way, "After two decades of screen doors banging, parent-teacher conferences, wet towels on the bathroom floor, and evenings at the ballfield, your time is your own again. And the house is so quiet."

—The Brookline Tab, 9-16-97 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

In an empty nest forum on the Internet, one woman described the frustration of her experience by saying, "…it's so awful that you spend 17 years of your life pouring love into your child, and enjoying every moment with them and then they just go away." She goes on to ask, "Do you get over this heartache as time goes on?"

—Empty Nest Forum, Tuesday 30 Dec. 1997, from "lesrob."