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My Son From Early To Present

he is a god given hap piness in my life before he could even speak english he told me his very first German joke and where he learned German is beyond me and i must say he is in no way part of my gene puddle deep and or from the shallow end but enough said for these now are his words: guten morgen ......... freeman telling him there is no rhyme for the word orange his reply, "door hinge" what's a blind German? a na zi don't make me go Japanese on you me asking at dinner why everyone else had Japanese chopsticks but i was eating with Chinese? He replied: Loser!!! him meeting his math teacher for the first time wearing a t-shirt that read "Three Out of Two People Know Nothing About Math" finding a sword in a pawn shop in Charlotte in a back corner with his star symbol and hearing him yell "This is mine" and i replying, "Not until i pay for it" another time at dinner him now having taken German classes naming all of the colors and me not remember ing that gelb was yellow so i asked, you know all these words yet you can't use them in a sent ence? which he replied Ich bin gelb and so as we laughed my wife didn't get it at all knowing he never missed a day of school in his life me, walking downstairs asking him what was up him telling me i've got to catch my bus and me telling him the time that he already had missed it and then him feverishly asking if i could drive him to school? but i pre pared him for the thought that took the backpack off his back and then telling him you're going back to bed though he fought it a bit he did it and went back to school the next day he and i laughing when we found out the politically correct name for his up bringing for the way he was raised him was a "free ...................................range child" me waking him guten Morgen wie geht es Ihnen sprechen das Deutsch? and him emphatically re sponding Nein i know he's not one of mine in the bio logical sense but i as my wife said that her and i were meant to meet so that i would meet her son

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