• My daughter is studying abroad in Rome this semester, and I'm very anxious. • I keep imagining her running into an Amanda Knox scenario, and I can't get to her. • I'm still adjusting to the time difference and reminding myself that this anxiety is normal.

My 20-year-old daughter is studying abroad in Rome. It's an eight-and-a-half-hour direct flight from where we live. (That's really far away!).

Since she left two weeks ago, I have asked myself multiple times, "Why did I let her go?"

My anxiety wasn't helped by the fact that "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox" debuted on Hulu just a few days before her departure. It's a true story about an American student studying abroad in Italy (yes, in Rome) who was falsely accused of murdering her roommate.

Since my daughter left the US, I hav

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