"When I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change, because you're amazing...just the way you are" Bruno Mars. This song was released the year Erin graduated from high school and it immediately became a favorite in our house. I still have a picture on my desk of Erin and Halie on freshman move-in day at UNC and on it I have attached a scrap of card stock with those words. Sometimes in my mind, they are still 17 and 15 just like that day in 2010 when this girl spread her wings to take her first big flight. That was probably the day I grew up more than she did. In truth, it's only about an hour and a half from Thomasville to Chapel Hill but that day it might as well have been a continent away. She had another home now and she would make friends I didn't know, make decisions I wouldn't be consulted on, find her own way a thousand times. ♡♡♡ Eight years later, I look at this confident young woman and I hear another song in my head, once again titled
"Just the way you are"
"I said I love you and that's forever, this I promise from the heart. I could not love you any better, I love you just the way you are"♡ Billy Joel
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