'We Have Always Kept in Touch Via the Telephone'

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When I sent my two daughters Melisa, 23, and Anna, 20 to study at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, I wanted them to be independent. In a way that they could make their own decisions that are not influenced by their mother or me. While, they were still here, I would say they were spoon-fed and everything was almost done for them. They would make friends because we told them to and not because they wanted to. While at school, they would call us just to buy them sanitary wear yet we had given them po