When you’re a kid you don’t realize you’re also watching your parents grow up 🥲

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I really did not need this heartbreak today

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Omg.
Same.
😭 😭 😭

True. And when you grow up, you start to see them age. 😢

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And that aging is almost like seeing them become a kid (forgetting things, needing help with things, slow). It’s a blessing to have them in our life no matter what

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Yeah this is blowing my mind 😢

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For sure. It’s such a mindf*** to think that when I was born my dad was 24 and my mom had just turned 20 a week earlier. And now I’m pushing 30 and kids aren’t even on the horizon, much less a wife!

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I used to think you were all grown up when you were 20! I had friends who’s parents had them at 20 and I thought, “oh that’s a nice age to have a kid…”

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently actually, thinking they were once invincible, now watching my parents age in front of my eyes, truly quite sad

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🥺

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Who's cutting onions in here

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I’m hearing Daniel Stern say this in Wonder Years episode.

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