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    what a lovely story. I really appreciate it as someone who is trying really hard to find the money to purchase his own clan tartan (the thing is going to cost at least 380 dollars for a 5 yard Kilt made by USAK as the Tartan only comes in Wool at this juncture). However I am fully happy to say that you are doing well in raising a fine lad over there

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    Some kids mature fast, others stay five forever, you are one of the lucky ones. Very encouraging that he's overlooked the comments from his father. I should say that you've had a great influence on him.

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    That is a wonderful story, it got me a wee bit choked up just reading it. It really says a lot about his feelings towards you that he would do this, and it says quite a bit about the young man as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McMurdo View Post
    That is a wonderful story, it got me a wee bit choked up just reading it. It really says a lot about his feelings towards you that he would do this, and it says quite a bit about the young man as well.
    My sentiments exactly.
    "Touch not the cat bot a glove."

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    Marvelous story. You're a lucky man and Kris is a lucky lad!

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    I am lucky indeed, to have such a fine 'son of Scotland'!

    I've never thought of Kris as anything other than my son from the day I moved in with his mum. Bizarrely, although his mum would say she knew he was in her womb before she ran her pregnancy test, I was the first person to actually see him, well, sort of!

    Here's how it went...Rexie and I were both nurses working on the same ward, we weren't together then, we were married to other partners. Rexie had done a pregnancy test on herself and left it for the requisite couple of minutes on some tissue in a room behind the nurses' station. I came across it and immediately wondered what was going on as we were working on an elderly care unit with an average age of about 70!

    I carefully picked up the test strip and called out down the ward asking who's test it was! Rexie and some of the other female nurses, who were in the know, started to laugh and Rexie ran up to me asking for the result. I said it was positive and that I thought we had a problem or, perhaps, a miracle on our hands!

    Rexie then informed me that it was her test and that, indeed, it was her that was with child! So, hugs all 'round and major embarrassment for me for breaking the news in such an ungentlemanly way!

    I kid Kris on sometimes that I've known him since he was "a blue dot"!

    Cheers

    Bruce

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    Tis a heart warming story. It brought tears to my eyes as well. I can only hope that someday the children in my blended family will learn to feel for me and my darling wife as your wee lad has grown to feel about you.

    Well done DAD!!!

    Cheers,

    Marshal Moroni
    "..., and wrote upon it - In memory of our God, our religion, and our freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children...." Alma 46:12

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    Very touching. As my girlfriend and I get more serious, I hope someday to have her son look upon me as your stepson does you.

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    Thats awesome your stepson wants to wear your family's tartan. I hope he wears it proud.
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