Crazy Family Story of the Week (No.2)
This one is courtesy of one of my millions of cousins...
A few years ago, there was a knock on my aunt's door a few days before Thanksgiving. She didn't know the person, but she opened the door anyway. There was a young lady on the door stoop asking to see my cousin. He came to the door and the girl said, "Hi, I wanted to come by because I thought that you might want to meet your son." The girl was holding a one-or-so year old child!
About a year and a half to two years earlier my cousin was at a bar depressed about the break-up of his most recent marriage (a whole other crazy story!) and this young lady offered him a little company. Well, that one act of kindness produced the child looking up at my cousin. The girl said that she wasn't asking for any assistance and didn't want a relationship; she and her parents were getting along just fine. She just felt bad that my cousin didn't know that he had a child floating around out there and wanted to give him the chance to be a part of his life. So, the girl and the baby came to Thanksgiving dinner and I hear that today my cousin and aunt have a lot of contact with the child and are very happy about it.
Not the best situation in the world, but I have to give the girl props for recognizing that her child should be given the chance to have a relationship with his father. It would have been a lot easier to raise the child and forget about him altogether.
A few years ago, there was a knock on my aunt's door a few days before Thanksgiving. She didn't know the person, but she opened the door anyway. There was a young lady on the door stoop asking to see my cousin. He came to the door and the girl said, "Hi, I wanted to come by because I thought that you might want to meet your son." The girl was holding a one-or-so year old child!
About a year and a half to two years earlier my cousin was at a bar depressed about the break-up of his most recent marriage (a whole other crazy story!) and this young lady offered him a little company. Well, that one act of kindness produced the child looking up at my cousin. The girl said that she wasn't asking for any assistance and didn't want a relationship; she and her parents were getting along just fine. She just felt bad that my cousin didn't know that he had a child floating around out there and wanted to give him the chance to be a part of his life. So, the girl and the baby came to Thanksgiving dinner and I hear that today my cousin and aunt have a lot of contact with the child and are very happy about it.
Not the best situation in the world, but I have to give the girl props for recognizing that her child should be given the chance to have a relationship with his father. It would have been a lot easier to raise the child and forget about him altogether.
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