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Paternal Advice

Today we drop our second son for his first year of college, and our first departs to begin his last. As their wings spread to carry them away, we burden them with a few words of paternal advice.

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JD Breen
Aug 12, 2023
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Athens, GA

August 12, 2023

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“God’s gift to us is who we are. Our gift to him is who we become.”

-Eleanor Powell

To My Sons:

As you begin and resume college, I offer some parting thoughts I hope will help.

There are many way…

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