Child Groomer, Sexual Predator
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RedheadedStranger » 21 Feb 2023, 11:30 am » wrote: ↑
One officially, and two unofficially. Two boys and girl.
The two unofficial ones are from kids that we fostered years ago that we've always treated like our own, so we lay claim to their kids as our own as well.

Bless your heart.
Seriously. That is a powerfully good and decent commitment you have made to all of humanity.
It is through our children (and foster children) and their children that we gain some semblance of immortality.
My dad was a really good golfer and he had the entire USGA rules of golf committed to memory. In his later years, when I was living in some seaport town and he was back along the banks of the Mississippi, I would find myself on a golf course, and I was unsure as to what the rule might be for a lateral hazard or a ball out of bounds or a loose impediment or any such thing, and I would call him and he would always know exactly what the rule was by rule # and then he would recite it. We were thousands of miles apart yet still very close, like he was my caddy talking over my shoulder. He has been dead now for sixteen years and yet..I STILL grab for my cell phone to call him from beside some pond or sand trap.
Immortality.