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Your Thursday at a glance:

Greetings, Chattanooga!

Do you remember back in your school days how summer felt endless? Then, you’d blink and it was time to start shopping for school supplies, again.

Just imagine how fast summertime must fly for the parents of recent high school graduates.

“As our older son gets ready to pack up for college this summer, I sometimes feel the need to pull him aside to pour out some life lessons,” Mark Kennedy wrote in a recent column. “If I’m being honest, I think this is an impulse borne of a desire to counsel my 18-year-old self, not him.”