Watching From A Distance
Harris Murray writes for the Times and Democrat in Orangeburg, SC about how she finds it reassuring to be able to see her daughter's MasterCard charges online while she's on a foreign trip away from home.
It’s rare that several days go by without talking to my daughter, either over the phone or through e-mail. This has been a first for me, to have her leave on a journey to a distant place without a personal hug and goodbye, without knowing or meeting most of the people she is spending this time with and without a consistent way to stay in touch. I think they call this “letting go.”And then Wednesday, there she was! My girl! My darling daughter. Not once, not twice, but five times on the MasterCard account, there was evidence that she is alive and well. The knot loosened, the heart sang a little, and all was well.
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