I’ll post my actual thoughts on the series in the epilogue.
Yesterday, I submitted my last shop class parts and hopefully I’ll pass. So now I’ve probably read this series in my first year of highschool, exiting highschool, while entering college and now exiting college. Each time I see the characters graduate, it’s meant a little more to me. Now that I’m out of the final stage of school in my life, I really doubt it will mean as much as this time.
TLDR: Characters graduating in this series resonates with me.