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Child Of The Fifties
I Played Intercourse Roulette When I Was 18 That Resulted in a Child Being Born
By the Time We Got to First Loves, We Had Discussed Other Topics
Talking to a stranger who became a friend.
I will call him Bud; he is the owner of the mechanic shop where I take our cars to be serviced. After several visits and discussions, I learned we had a somewhat parallel life journey. Bud is a year older than me.
He shared with me, he and his wife will celebrate fifty-one years of marriage later this year and have a daughter 51-year-old. They married months after they found out she was pregnant. Bud and his wife had a second child, a boy. Named after his father, grandfather, and grandfather. All four family members have different middle names.
I was excited to see that Bud and his wife survived their life-changing event and have enjoyed a happy life. Well, except their son estranged them. The son also estranged his entire family, and they only live miles apart, seems like an uncomfortable arrangement. I understand that from them the son caused and choose to be estranged 20 years ago. He did not want to amend his ways.
