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<blockquote data-quote="Californiablonde" data-source="post: 713890" data-attributes="member: 2196"><p>Oh and today is the last day of school. Everybody is SO happy. All my coworkers are talking and laughing, sharing food, and enjoying the last day. I have been fighting off tears all day. I have the rest of next week to sit here, and wallow. It's hard when the students aren't here. I literally have nothing to do for a week except surf the internet. They are paying me to do nothing. I will have no distractions. </p><p></p><p>My son is done with finals, and no more staying up till 4:00 a.m. studying. I think he passed all of his classes. I am relieved about that. There is some good right now. And this morning, as I was near tears, a grandparent came to me with a big bouquet of flowers. She handed me the flowers, started crying, and thanked me profusely for helping her grandson, who is mentally ill, all this year. </p><p></p><p>And then there was the parent who brought me a Starbuck's coffee and a thank you card a few weeks ago, thanking me for all the hard work I have done with her son, who is so much like my own son, and for listening to her when she needed a shoulder to cry on. We became friends over these last few years, because our boys have many of the same issues, and I helped her, however small, in getting through some of it. </p><p></p><p> I do feel grateful for moments like those, and it means so much to me that I can make a little difference, and help some people along the rocky road of life. I know there is still some good, but right now I am broken and it will take time to heal. Just how long, I don't know, but it will happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Californiablonde, post: 713890, member: 2196"] Oh and today is the last day of school. Everybody is SO happy. All my coworkers are talking and laughing, sharing food, and enjoying the last day. I have been fighting off tears all day. I have the rest of next week to sit here, and wallow. It's hard when the students aren't here. I literally have nothing to do for a week except surf the internet. They are paying me to do nothing. I will have no distractions. My son is done with finals, and no more staying up till 4:00 a.m. studying. I think he passed all of his classes. I am relieved about that. There is some good right now. And this morning, as I was near tears, a grandparent came to me with a big bouquet of flowers. She handed me the flowers, started crying, and thanked me profusely for helping her grandson, who is mentally ill, all this year. And then there was the parent who brought me a Starbuck's coffee and a thank you card a few weeks ago, thanking me for all the hard work I have done with her son, who is so much like my own son, and for listening to her when she needed a shoulder to cry on. We became friends over these last few years, because our boys have many of the same issues, and I helped her, however small, in getting through some of it. I do feel grateful for moments like those, and it means so much to me that I can make a little difference, and help some people along the rocky road of life. I know there is still some good, but right now I am broken and it will take time to heal. Just how long, I don't know, but it will happen. [/QUOTE]
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