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I'll start by telling you that I was adopted shortly after birth. In 2005 I was found by my birth family and reunited with 5 sisters and 2 brothers.

That being said this is not what this blog is about. This is about 2 other sisters reuniting for the first time since birth, and what makes this reunion so special is they are identical twins.

From the Today Show : "Separated at birth 33 years ago, identical twin sisters Amanda Dunford and Katey Bennett recently learned of each other’s existence through a genetic testing service. Live on Megyn Kelly TODAY, they meet face to face for the first time. Amanda tells Megyn that when she and Katey first spoke via FaceTime, “I felt like I was talking to myself the whole time … it was very surreal.”"

2 men who have been best friends for 60 years discover they are biological brothers.

How do you touch your woman?

A woman loves to be touched by her man Feelings of love are hidden under her skin waiting for him to wake her up

1. Gently press her palm when she is afraid to comfort her

2. Gently pressing and rubbing her back when you hug her tightly makes her feel secure

3. Grab her a** without apology as this makes her feel wanted and desired by you her man

4. Hold her by the waist when you introduce her to your friends and family This makes her feel safe

5. Gently rubbing her hand when she feels anxious or receives some bad news this shows her that you care

6. Catch her while she is in the kitchen cooking with her hands tied and you telling her how much she means to you will make her effort worth it

7. Place your hand between her breasts or on her breasts while you sleep as this will make her feel comfortable and warm with you

8. Touching her belly when she is pregnant tells her that she is not alone dad is there with her

9. Rubbing her buttocks when she gets dressed or when she is relaxing in bed this makes her feel sexy

10. Hold her hands when you pray as this indicates unity before God

11. Sneak up from behind her and wrap your arms around her It makes her feel special

12. Massage her shoulders when she says she is tired this calms her down

13. Gently stroke her back tracing down her spine sending sweet shivers throughout her body

14. Rubbing her feet when she's had a long day tells her you re serious when you say you'll take care of her

15. Oil her body back elbows knees sometimes. Love a body that you find sexy

16. Hold her face, her neck as you kiss her gently melting and weakening her You like to surrender to your manly love

17. Play with her fingers while you hug and talk letting her know that you are paying attention

Is it a product of the C-19 influences on us all? Or something greater? During the potato blight famine, around 1847, apparently the Choctaw tribe sent just under USD 200 to help the Starving Irish. Now, it's not as if this Tribe was without it's own racist challenges, as with all Native American groups in Canada and the USA. Following their good hearts, the Irish have been taking up collections to return the kindness. Can anyone say Hope for humanity ? Can't make this stuff up, folks.

Incredible day for me today. Through Ancestry.com I was contacted by someone who appears to be my biological Grandson. His Father was adopted. The possible Grandson is going to gift his Dad with a DNA kit from Ancestry. When his results come in, in about 2 months, I may discover a Son I never knew I had.

I was lucky to have parents that didn't divorce. Some of my friends did. When their parents remarried, they had a tough life growing up as 'the step-child', usually torn between accepting difficult terms for visitation, alienation from a distant biological parent and power struggles when the step-parent wasn't accepting them... on any terms.
Some carried the experience of being a step-child like a chip on their shoulder.

One guy who had an older sister and a younger brother was raised with both biological parents... no divorce. However, they were the meanest parents I knew of. He couldn't wait to get a job and move away from home. He became a successful musician, married and had 2 kids. While he was on the road (earning a living and sending money home) his wife has an affair that led to divorce. The experience literally caused a career change so he didn't repeat the same mistake.
Dysfunctional would be a good description of his home life growing up and he brought that into his marriage as well.

Looking back, those kids had it easy as some of my school mates were adopted. Some not knowing who their biological parents were. To grow up knowing you weren't accepted at birth is a hard road to travel. While things have changed with orphanages opening records and DNA testing, that doesn't change the past.

On a brighter note, I do recall one couple adopting a baby girl from Asia. The adoption requirements were strict. They had the funds and knowledge to do it right where their daughter although 'different' from her classmates was a shining star and accepted by everyone she came in contact with.







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After three years of desperation, the family of missing California teen Connerjack Oswalt is overjoyed after the teenager was found this week in Park City, Utah.

In September 2019, then-16-year-old Oswalt was reported missing by the family in Clearlake, Calif.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System says that Oswalt, who was diagnosed with autism in 2014, had "a history of running away." Prior to his disappearance in September 2019, NamUs reported that he went missing in May of the same year after his mother took his phone away; he fled his home in Clearlake, taking only his cat.

He then reportedly went missing again on September 28, 2019.

Over recent weeks, reports came in to the Summit County Sheriff's Office of a man pushing a shopping cart in Summit Park in Park City. The last report sighted him sleeping outside Jeremy's Store, a convenience store by a gas station near the I-80.

Oswalt reportedly declined to tell the officers his name, but he allowed them to scan his fingerprints, revealing he had a warrant out of Nevada under the misspelled name "Conner Jack Oswald." After suspecting there was more to his story and researching missing people that might fit his profile in National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database, the match was made.

Oswalt's family had moved from California to Idaho since his disappearance. "We searched all over California, we had the missing centers of America, we had the Polly Klaas Foundation and the DOJ," Oswalt's mom told CBS News. "We've had a lot of false hope over the last two-and-a-half years," added Oswalt's stepfather, Gerald Flint.

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...creepy things adults say to little kids, to keep them in line...
---If you swallow watermelon seeds, or your chewing gum, watermelons will grow in your stomach, and the gum will stay there for seven years.
---If you stare cross-eyed in the mirror, you'll see the devil, and he'll make your eyes stay crooked.
---Girls who don't trim their hair and go out at night, will have the bats come and make nests on their heads.
---If you swim right away after a big meal, the cramps will make you drown, and big fish will eat you.
Lots more, but the one that petrified me was,---

---If you play with yourself in bed, you'll go blind, and hair will grow on your fingers and palms. So, everybody will know. And as a frightful corollary---
---if you keep dirty magazines under your mattress, God will find out, and will keep you from being buried in a Catholic cemetery.

Don't really know how any of us, ever made it past early childhood.