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David is one of the most decent human beings I've ever met.

I could go on.

Congratulations. I never had that kind of luck with step-parents.

OTOH my Dad's wife would give a woodpecker a headache.

I wouldn't be the man I am today w/o my stepdad. He's a wonderful guy.

cardinalkarp wrote:I wouldn't be the man I am today w/o my stepdad. He's a wonderful guy.

That's great. I can't blame David for the how I turned out since he and Mom didn't start dating until about 4 years ago.


78 years old, he grew up on a farm in Lake Zurich, Illinois when it was still a farming community and ended up marrying the daughter of, to this day, the world's most famous adman. Unfortunately, after the first few years, they had a fairly loveless marriage. Ambitious and intelligent, she was more suited for some sort of scientific or business career than the role of housewife that became hers. She spent nearly all of the last two decades of her life becoming the world's most prolific birder and not being much of a spouse. It's sort of sad that one person's pursuit of a dream left their family wanting.
As for my mom, she's a Southerner and a fairly old fashioned housewife and mother of 6, who never dated after she finally kicked my dad out after 30 years of marriage when he couldn't stop his catting around. She had no idea how to get out there and every guy she thought was nice was gay.

A couple years after David's wife died in Madagascar, he asked my Mom, a neighbor, if she would take him to pick up his car at the shop. They began dating shortly thereafter.
What's really nice about it is that they both seem so much better suited for each other than there longtime spouses. Plus, he is an amateur magician and ventriloquist- something that never amused his first wife- which my daughter and her cousins love.

The trick now is to keep him healthy for another 10 years or so.