She contacted him 'out of the blue' at a most vulnerable time of his life when some of his worst choices caused the loss of much he had planned. Her voice was persuasive, her story revealing much unsuspected pain from an earlier time. He decided he wanted to meet her.
This part of his story inspired the meme... or was the meme inspired by the story? Whatever, it was a difficult time. Here's an excerpt from this day - and what turned out to be a small but seriously significant part of the whole saga.
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Is today as rough on them as it is on me? I can't imagine how they're feeling. Not even sure how I'm feeling... except sick. Really sick. Maybe call the whole thing off, and I go home to bed? Could be coming down with something terminal. Yeh, sure Daniel, something called cowardice, maybe?
But maybe she won't even show up. Now THAT would be the perfect solution! I think... Oh hell, I don't know. I wanted this so much; needed it; couldn't be a complete person without it. Now it's nearly happening, I wish I could run away; wish I was little again and could hide my face in Mum's skirt like I used to whenever the world felt too big. God, what a wimp, what a piker. It's only my other mother. Should be cool, but it's not. It's confusing and it's weird and I'm jumpy as...
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I tried to see this meeting through his eyes, limited though my vision was to the doubts and fears he shared with us from her first phone contact. But the years of protecting our child from stranger danger were past, or so we all thought.
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