Subj : Hello to all the Dad's out there! To : All From : Dotoran Date : Sat Nov 23 2019 19:07:16 This looks like an interesting echo. With BBS's of today, using network echoes is a bit different in my mind, as it seems most boards I call all have the same echoes, so I find myself dropping out of all the echoes, then going back and joining different echoes on each board I'm on, so I'm not constantly being bombarded with the same NEW messages on each board I call. Anyways, being a dad for me came in a slightly different way. I met my wife (now ex-wife) about 2 weeks before her son turned 16. I remember it took 5 or 6 dates before she'd let me meet him. He was a hockey goalie and an average student with a couple of learning differences. We quickly bonded, and even though his biological father was still in the area, he made it pretty evident he didn't want to have much to do with him. It took him a while to stop calling me Dave and start calling me Dad, but I have to say, that was a neat feeling. My wife had gotten pregnant again about a year after having her son, but because of complications in her pregnancy, she both lost the baby and lost her ability to have any other biological children. I was alright with that, though, and told her as much. We were both members of large families (she the oldest of 5, and me the oldest of 4, although I also have an aunt that's 2 years younger than I am, and growing up, she was like a sister to us). I had thought we had the family we were gonna have, until 2 years after we married. --- CNet/5 * Origin: Central Ontario Remote CNet (1:249/307.1) .