I have two kids and my parents are older, and I realize how hard it is to be away from them. AdvertisementI didn't comprehend what it meant to be an only child living so far away from my parents. New York is already a seven-hour flight from Tucson, where my parents live, I rationalized. Our first child, Eloise, was at a "golden age" for travel. My parents chose to have one child because I was "all they wanted" (I'm still not convinced that's a compliment).

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