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To My Darling Unborn Child Today I signed papers that would allow you to be brought up by a loving family who desperately wanted a child just like you. Please don’t think that I relinquish all rights to you, because I didn’t love you or because I was selfishly thinking of myself. It wasn’t out of neglect. I can’t think of anything nicer than being able to bring you up in a loving family and buy you nice things, but my darling, that wouldn’t happen. I only knew your father briefly before he was shipped to Afghanistan, and know little about his family background. It was only because I had included my return address on a letter he had with him, that another soldier used it to write to me telling me he was DOA at the base hospital some weeks before. I was orphaned when I was 6 years old and spent ten years in an orphanage. I have no relations, and I don’t want you going through a succession of foster homes as I did. In all probability you will be born this week. I have asked that the family that adopts you give you this letter as soon as you are old enough to begin asking about your birth mother. Honestly, I don’t think we should meet. I would be a disappointment to you and by then you will have a wonderful mother who loves you more than I can only imagine. She will have cared for you when you were ill, taught you manners, and one million things more. She will be the only mother you will ever know. I won’t send you Christmas and birthday gifts, as that only confuses things, but be assured I will be thinking of you on those days, and probably many more days too. Always darling one, be the best you can be. It is important to be happy and have fun and not to get angry. Think about what is about to make you angry, take a minute to sort it out, stay calm, you will feel better and be in a better frame of mind to fix the problem. Have as little as possible to do with people that make you angry. Make time for fun. Stay happy, smile as much as you can. Enjoy the little things when there are no big things to enjoy. Practice overcoming the bad times with positive thoughts and find something to laugh at. Even if you cant find anything, just have a good laugh at yourself. When some one is mean to you, walk away and find a butterfly to marvel at or look up at the clouds or the rain falling or the stars, or the wind tossing leaves about. No time for sadness HAVE FUN. Create a wonderful memory EVERY DAY.
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