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Byline: Eve Conant
When Janet Spaventa packed her daughter off to college two years ago, she was thrilled. Sure, she was going to miss Laura terribly, but it was time for her to go. Fast-forward to today, when in a few weeks Janet's second child will leave home, and the mood is tense. It's not just that Danny will be starting university in Atlanta, an urban environment with a bad rap for guns and violence, and it's not just that-like most teenagers, particularly eighteen-year-old boys-he's a horrible communicator. It's that the Spaventa family knows what can happen when kids fly the nest and wind up in a hurricane. Months have passed since Laura was crammed under ...