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The year is 2020 and Logan’s bags are packed for college. He gets his syllabus, his books, and his parents drop him off at his new dorm. He’s only living an hour away, so visiting over the weekend is doable if he likes. His dorm is small, but he’s excited to be moving in and exploring the campus. His mom and dad offer to take him to dinner before they leave, and he agrees, but they can tell he wants to be doing other things. He has an entire new space to explore, and he’s a social guy. They ask him if they can get a rain check on dinner, instead ensuring he’d at least visit that weekend.

They’re getting weepy on the drive home when their phones start going off rapid-fire. Kelly panics for a moment, before discovering that Logan is texting the both of them pictures of campus and things he’s excited about. The café, a selfie with an office manager, the library, an instructional walkthrough of using a home computer, circa 1976, followed by about sixteen laughing emojis. This doesn’t stop them from being weepy, but it does put some of their fears aside. Logan is a smart young man, and they can experience a bittersweet mixture of pride and sadness together as a couple. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The Empty Nest”

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The year is 2018. Logan has graduated high-school and taking a gap year to work at his parents’ bookshop before going off to college. David applied for a job at the BookNook despite the fact they never actually advertised a job was available. They don’t have the funds or need for an employee, so they turn him down but invite him to still come hang out with Logan while he’s working.

The boys are disappointed. Logan reacts in a way that is still a little over-blown compared to someone a little older and wiser, but nothing unmanageable. He’s 18, and ‘the worst thing that’s ever happened to him’ remains a fairly mild list of things. His grandmother’s death was when he was too little to truly understand and be affected by it, and otherwise he’s got it pretty good. At one point in his mid-teens, he announced that something was the worst thing that ever happened to him. If you asked him now what it was, he wouldn’t even be able to tell you, and would be embarrassed he’d said it, but Logan saying it had made his parents beam with pride despite themselves. Not at him, necessarily, but the fact that something so minor was the worst. The phrase was a hormonal teenager having a moment of runaway emotions, but the win was there. Logan didn’t have anything worse to compare it to.
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