Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

Caitlin Moran is an English author, writer, and broadcaster.

It was a long time ago now, but she wrote something in one of her weekly columns, which resonated and has stayed with me.

‘shutting the door behind me and heading into the night’

I, too, was that young woman leaving the family home early evening to catch a bus into Birmingham (UK) with no idea how the night would unfold. The city night scene was busy in those days, lots going on. Vibrant, welcoming, exciting.

In hindsight, a kind of magical time.