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My oldest son is now 20, youngest is 17. We sent both away for high school (out of state parochial boarding school), so maybe the thought of them leaving for good is a little easier for us. Probably different when it really is for good, as when they leave for school you know they will be back for holidays and such.
I left home at 19, two years after my dad died, and have been on my own ever since. I'm just now starting to appreciate how hard that must have been for my mom. And how young I must have looked.
I have a pretty good relationship with my boys. Porsches, believe it or not, have connected us. My youngest help me build my '72 T into the hot rod it is today. Starting when he was about ten. Now we are starting on his '68 912 to 911 conversion. My oldest has a '79 SC; we spend a good deal of time together at the track doing DE's, and together in the garage preparing the cars for them. I have the tools, the time, and the werewithall. As long as they want to keep driving these things, they'll be back. Unless I taught them too well...
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Jeff
'72 911T 3.0 MFI
'93 Ducati 900 Super Sport
"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
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