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We are starting our first year at the University of Virginia.
Yeah! Coming up from Georgia yeah.

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Just getting moved in, first day on campus or Grounds. Long 15 
hour drive to get here. Yes, for sure but

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happy that we're kind of getting settled. You 
know, today is a really exciting day it's a  

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whole new journey now. Yes, this is our last one. 
We live in a tent just to pay for all this tuition.  

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I'm a little nervous of course it's a whole new 
environment for me but it's great I love UVA so  

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I'm excited to move in and get my things ready. 
Yeah I'm kind of nervous because I kind of had  

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to quarantine for like two years of high school, so 
I haven't really done in person in a while.

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I'm looking forward to meeting new people. Getting to 
take classes I care about, that'll be good. Having  

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my independence and like make me figure out like 
more who I want to be and like what I want to do.  

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Excited for football games I'm just excited for 
class overall. Explore all of Charlottesville  

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just ride around on my bike honestly that's what 
I'm looking forward to the most. It's obviously  

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exciting to have like a sense of freedom but 
obviously I'm going to miss everyone so much.  

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She wants me to call her every day, every day, 
I'm fine with that. Once a week you know like  

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maybe you set a time to check in. But it should be 
more often than the times that you need to ask for  

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money. Right! That's right! We haven't 
set up rules but I have some in my head so

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twice a day at least. Maybe like the first couple 
days then I feel like I'm going to get distracted.  

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Like this is such an exciting time you're 
going to make so many great friends, I already  

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love your roommate, just enjoy yourself. Be 
kind to yourself. It's easy to get caught up  

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in expectations and what you're supposed to 
do and how you're supposed to do it. Study hard  

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but have a lot of fun. Sounds good. It's all 
gonna be overwhelming the first two weeks but  

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after that you know things will be starting to 
feel like home. My wife and I, Kimberly Grantham,  

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we are alum and we're just really proud to 
have him join the ranks of the Wahoos and

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man it's just a great moment you know. 
This will be the first time in 29 years that we  

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won't have any of our children in the 
house with us anymore. That's crazy. Yeah.  

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It's outrageous. He was always at home when I 
got home and he's always there to hang out and  

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now he's not, now he's in Charlottesville, Virginia. That's outrageous, man. I'm officially  

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an empty nester after today so it's going to be 
an adjustment. I really don't want to talk too much  

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about it because I'll probably start crying. Like 
you said, it hasn't sunk in yet so we're just  

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waiting for the storm to pass over. We're saving 
the crying for the car drive home we'll have a  

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good solid eight hours of crying ahead of us so, 
we'll be okay. It's hard it's just hard to see  

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her go. Love you. It's gonna be weird to have four 
people at the table having dinner instead of five.  

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She is clearly my very good friend so I will 
miss her advice, oh now you're making me teary. 

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I think just know that what you may feel 
like you're losing, the University is gaining  

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plus some. Try to keep being me as best I can, 
meet new people, spread my impact, fulfill the  

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legacy that you left coming here and that mom left and that I'm gonna continue to be a role model for my two 

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younger siblings, Copeland and Jovi, 
that may be coming through here in a few years.

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