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上大学 Off to College Quintuplets Leave the Nest Empty-nest syndrome hit Dan and Pam Pisner harder than most parents who send their children off to college. All five of their children - quintuplets who made headlines when they were born in 1983 - left for college last fall. EWS' Barbara Walters first got to know the Pisner children - Devin, Ian, Shira, Michael and Elliot - when they were 14 months old. She revisited the quintuplets last year, as they prepared to leave their home in Olney, Md. and head off to college. A Natural, But Difficult, Change "It's just so hard to believe that 18 years have gone by so quickly," said Pam, a government worker who was 29 years old when she gave birth to the quintuplets after fertility treatments. "I am going to be crying my eyes out. They are going to leave this house as quickly as they entered - all at once." For Dan, work consultant who works from home, it's a difficult transition as well. "I thought we got to keep them forever," he said. But, he has realized, "You don't get to keep them forever and this is natural." Four of the Pisners are at the University of Maryland, about 15 miles away. Elliot left the pack to attend Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md., which is about a2 1/2 hour drive. "I just loved their campus," said Elliot, who plans on focusing on management information systems. "I'll admit I'll probably miss them," he said of h