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When your child attends your alma mater

When we were visiting colleges with our daughter, Rachel, a student tour guide escorted us through a dorm. It was coed. We were introduced to the girls residing in room 408 -- one from Rachel's native state, New York, and the other from my wife's and mine, Maryland.

Looking around the cinder-block room painted a creamy off-white, accented with utilitarian hardwood furniture, I was overwhelmed...

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