Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Birth Day

It's Allie's birthday today. She's 18 now and I'm haunted with dreams of rejection and loss.

We've all been invited to her group home for cake and a small celebration.

Re-read that sentence, please. Because that's just weird.

What parent gets invited to their daughter's 18th birthday party? At a group home? (Insert more self-pity here.)

Yes, we'll have a group party for the kids, like we usually do, in June. But the strangeness of this... Well, I'm going to have to buck-up some today, aren't I.

But right now, I think I should at least honor the fact that 18 years ago when I first held her I never saw this coming.

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