HickoryCricket

I was rather certain that my parents had forgotten.   I was finally becoming an adult, legally adult in a world ruled by them and I was excited and apprehensive at the same time. My parents, you see, had always been very protective of me, more so than of any of my friends and it, while it had been a comfort at certain times, it had also been a nuisance as, I suppose, it would be of anyone of that age with such parents. I loved them, of course, but I wanted to fly free, try my own wings and find myself, so to speak.   This wish comes to all those on the threshold of adulthood, or nearing it.   It is a fear, really. Every time we know change i