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In less than a month our baby boy will be 18, and then in another three months, he will be graduated from high school and off to a polytechnic school in Calgary, Alb. It's hard to believe he was a delicate four pounds when he was born. I was discharged from the hospital before he was. Leaving him there while I went home was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life at that stage.

His tiny foot was smaller than my pointer finger. I remember taking a picture of his first little shoes beside his dad's size 12 shoes and commenting on how big those shoes would be for him to fill. He only has...