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High School Feels Like Yesterday

(Or, My Son Starts Today)

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Amanda Goodwin
Sep 02, 2025
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Fourteen years ago today, Briggs, his dad, and I were coming home from emergency surgery. After a 61-day NICU stay at Beth Israel, he’d only been home about 36 hours before we rushed back to Boston Children’s for an emergency surgery over Labor Day weekend.

Parenthood was a rough start.

I want to say it got easier. Eventually, I did worry less about his p…

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