Posted by: Dale Franks on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Well, uh, I guess I am. At least for one needful little girl. Due to a set of family circumstances too unfortunate and complicated to relate in any detail, I will, within the next few days, and with almost no preparation at at all, become the de facto father of a 7 year-old little girl. The Lovely Christine's little grand-daughter, Lexie, will be coming to live with us for at least the remainder of the 2006-2007 school year. If I were able to recount the circumstances that require this bright, sweet little girl to come live with us, it would anger you beyond reason and/or reduce you to helpless weeping. In any event, after a lifetime of vowing to remain childless—mainly so I could afford to buy any cool toy that caught my eye—I will be thrust, without warning or preparation, into the role of quasi-fatherhood. But, there is absolutely no way that I can morally do anything else. This poor child desperately needs a stable, structured family life, and, at the moment, only The Lovely Christine and I can provide her with it. Her father—Chris' son—would like nothing more than to step up and fulfill the role of fatherhood, but literally cannot at the present time. And her mother...well, let's just say that her lack of mothering ability is the reason Chris and I must step in to help raise this child. At the end of the day, given my druthers, I would prefer to remain childless. But I would be nothing less than a scoundrel and a cad if I were to reject the requirement to serve in loco parentis for this lovely little child, in a time of such desperate need. I assume that most of you "have a god, or gods, or some such beliefs which comfort you"1. So, as you lay down to sleep at night and speak to Jehovah, or Wotan, or whoever, I beg you to remember Chris and I in your prayers, devotions, or other ritualistic chantings. And, if Chris and I should be required to raise Lexie until adulthood, and should you live in Southern California and have a son of about 7 years of age who might be in a position to meet and/or date the almost painfully beautiful Lexie eight or nine years hence, you should especially remember him in you prayers. You should, specifically, pray that he never meets me, or worse, incurs my wrath. ____________________ 1 OK, this is an easy one. From whence does this particular quote originate? |
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