I graduated a year early from high school and have no regrets. Now my daughter is doing the same.

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There are many decisions I made growing up that I now regret, like the short haircut I got in the fourth grade that was supposed to look like Princess Diana's, pegging my jeans so tight at the ankles that it almost cut off circulation to my feet, and my first kiss with a nice guy who should definitely have stayed in the friend zone.