He said to me that sometimes the thing that keeps him going is the hope that 20 years from now, one day he would find out that their decisions and actions would have mattered and would have been effective in those children's lives. I thought to myself that to find role models in our lifetime, sometimes all we have to do is walk over to the cubicle down the hall. Can you imagine the immensity and importance of what they have done? Just like any doting father, he reached in his wallet and showed me his kids' school pictures and told me about the challenges of raising them, going from having no children one day to having three the next. I got a chance today to go visit him in his cubicle, asking after the boys and how they are doing. My friend John and his partner adopted three orphaned brothers last year. Honestly, I don't know how successful I was! Right about now it's all a moot point, don't you think? I want to thank those of you who noticed my absence and kindly wrote to find out what happened to me last night. All day today I sleep walked, suppressing yawns and fighting stupidity, a common side effect of sleep deprivation for me. I didn't get a chance to write a post or do anything else, going to bed at 4:00 a.m. So, I got caught up in a social gathering last night, coming home really late, and having to deliver on a promise I had made my friend to do something for him.
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