I wasn't offended, Sweetie (note the wink). You're right, in a way: I am not the same person I was a year ago; I doubt that any of us are. Something that has always rather saddened me is the thought that my graduate school experience was gone forever, the moment I graduated. I just loved it; that is the only time in my life that I have had a whole group of close friends. But it would certainly be different if I were to re-enroll with a whole new class. And even if somehow every last one of us were to go through as a group again, it still wouldn't be the same, because we would have changed: new experiences, new outlooks. I guess I'm just not a person who lets go very easily; even with things that I know must end and should end, most of the time I heave at least a small sigh of regret.
