the light at the end of the long-assed tunnel

As of today, my student loan repayment is a mere $7075.91 (additional 13 payments of $224.57 and 15 of $277.10). I have been making these payments for 12 years already (give or take). It is hard to imagine - but the nicest kind of 'hard to imagine' - that in a year and a half, it will all be over.