Seeing your child in college and letting go is a hard thing for any parent. Watch what happens when Phil and Claire visit Alex on the Modern Family episode airing October 4.

The episode is titled “The Long Goodbye.  Here is the synopsis from TV Guide: “Phil and Claire visit Alex at college and realize how self-sufficient she is. Meanwhile, Manny want to avoid a long, tearful goodbye after Gloria and Jay move him into his college dorm; and Mitch may have accidentally accelerated a planned renovation.”

Don’t miss Modern Family “The Long Goodbye” airing Wednesday, October 4 at 9/8c on ABC.

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