On 01 May 05  09:44:54, Carol Shenkenberger got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: Book 'er, Danno

 CS> Diatribe on?  

See subject line!  

 CS> My husband has a child, long before I met him.  Her name
 CS> is Sara and Charlotte would love to meet her, but the mother would
 CS> never tell Sara about Don.  Never married, never a court order to
 CS> support, but the man was sending 700$ a month from 1978-2001.  The

That's 23 years....  

 CS> only time we heard from the mother was when she moved and had to tell
 CS> him where to send the money to (a PO box always).  We have at best, a
 CS> picture of Sara age 11.  Sara never knew her father supported her.  No
 CS> letters were answered.  We only knew the checks were cashed and were
 CS> supposed to send her to college. 

Nothing like hiding the kids from the father.   :(  

 CS> I can never repair this, but one day I would hope to track Sara down
 CS> and let her at least know she had a father who cared, and a 1/2 sister
 CS> age 11, named Charlotte, who would like to say hello. 

It's only reasonable.  It's not like the older child was given 
up for adoption.  


 CS> Diatribe off.  But if you wonder why I married the man?  Who could
 CS> resist a man who would be so careful and loveing as to continue
 CS> support for so many years just in the *hope* that his child would be
 CS> ok even with no other response than 'I've moved, send the check here'? 

There's a few us good people out there!  

 CS> dates!  Umm, I think it's 19 years now but gotta ask him to be sure
 CS> (laugh if you want to but a secure marriage, you kinda forget little
 CS> details like that). 

OK, I won't laugh!  

 CS> so I could sleep after studying for the test the next night).  That
 CS> 1987 means 18 years so I bet he's adding the 'extra' year on when we
 CS> were married except in court papers . 

Per the above, Goldie Hawn was on _60 Minutes_ las night.  She and 
Kurt Russ never married.  Yet, they've been together for some 28 yrs.  

 CS> Grin, I digress but i can type all day about how wonderful Don is. 
 CS> Lets just say his imperfections match me to a T.  His few gaps hit my
 CS> strong points so we match. and add, I am just bitchy enough to say
 CS> that most marriages that do not work, are because one of the 2 refuse
 CS> to work on it.  If both do, almost any match can work.

See?  Your diatribe ended up with good news.   :)   


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