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DFW

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Mon Feb 16, 2026, 09:35 AM Feb 16

I swear, sometimes, no matter how bad we might have it................. [View all]

My younger daughter, the one living in Germany, "inherited" four children when she chose to stay with her current partner, with whom she now also has two daughters of her own. Her partner has an older girl, who moved to the USA (their mom is American), and the three boys still live in Germany. They are perfectly bi-lingual, and all three of them ore among the most perfectly behaved, smart and genuine young people I have ever met. They are brunette (the oldest), redhead (the middle one) and blonde (the youngest). Mother Nature decided to paint a rainbow with them.

The middle one, now somewhere around 16-17, just started a nice relationship with a local girl. At age 17, she was just diagnosed with a rare, aggressive eye cancer (who knew?) that she is desperately trying to beat.

How cruel can fate get?

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