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Exit 28 on Route 80...

That's all that the real estate ad said. It made no mention of Hopatcong or Sussex County or how far exit 28 was from Little Falls, NJ. So that fateful day in 1977, I left the kids with my father and my mother and I took a ride. Mom and I could talk about a drop of water or a hemline. When we were together, and we almost always were, time flew. The next thing I knew, I saw a sign for exit 28. Making that turn off the highway, I never dreamed how much my life would change or how far exit 28 seemed to be from Little Falls. I didn’t realize that my Mom, who was 59 when I moved here, would never drive here by herself. Who can say how different my life would be today if I knew that I would be cut off from life as I knew it and launched into a different world.

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