That would be very hard and I'm not sure how well I would deal with it. I am a school teacher by trade. This is actually one of the first years I'm not teaching in the last 20 or so. I've always dreaded the end of the year with a passion, saying goodbye to students I know I'd never see again as well as a few teachers not returning. I get it for the most part. I've never developed the kind of friendship/camaraderie you had, but I recently moved 2,600 miles from Florida to Idaho. I left behind my two daughters, the only friend I had in over 15 years (long story there) and pretty much everything I knew.

I have regrets big time but it was something I needed to do at the time and I have to live with that decision now. The end of the school year this past year was expecially hard. I'd taught at my most recent for nearly ten years and I knew when I left in June, that I was not likely to return. It was a bit overwhelming along with all the other problems I had at the time, but I somehow made it through and here I am.... Not always easy, even now, but I'm surviving.