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21. Separation Anxiety

Gretchen's return to college forces Dawson to make an important decision; Jen resists when Grandma wants to sell the house to pay for college.

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The school year draws to a close, and Joey and Dawson deal with their respective break-ups. Jen learns that Grams is selling her house to put Jen through college and plans to move to a retirement community. Dawson learns that Gretchen plans to return to college after a summer road trip. He offers to go with her and she agrees. Mr. Kubelik, the alumni rep from Worthington, asks Joey to bring Pacey with her to a party as he and the dean of admissions have an offer for Pacey. However, Kubelik merely wants to offer Pacey a job as a deckhand on his yacht. Jen asks Grams to move to Boston with her and Jack, and Grams agrees. Dawson realizes that he is going to miss a great deal of Lilly's babyhood as he goes off to college, and arrives at Pacey and Gretchen's house to find that she has already gone, leaving only his yearbook, in which she exhorts him to live the life already before him, and says that she loves him. Absent: Meredith Monroe

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