Broken Family

My little brother departs for The Grape today ("The Grape" being the nickname for the University of Virginia I'm trying to establish. UVA = uva = grape. It makes sense, dammit!). My mom and dad are taking him down, but I'm not going (I'd just take up room in the car). So this is it for us. Well, until Winter Break anyway (so it's actually not any longer time apart then in the past three years. But it feels melodramatic).