Off to college with Robert Frost.(THE HOME FORUM)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20060123
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Byline: Robert Klose

When I took my son off to his freshman year of college back in September, the bittersweet experience was tempered in a powerful way.

As Alyosha and I drove through the picture-postcard villages and the mountains of central New Hampshire, we spoke of the academic road ahead and his aspirations for success at Plymouth State University.

But in quiet moments, when nothing was being said, my eyes rested on the landscape, which became more intimate, quaint, and picturesque the closer we drew to Plymouth. Finally I was moved to utter, "Alyosha, can there ...

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