Good News! It's a Boy!                For those of you who haven't heard our               Cottonwood Good News Story, here it is.     The neighbors were all interested when they noticed Peter and Lorraine Alexander's carport was festooned with blue balloons and a banner proclaiming, "It's a Boy!" When they congratulated them about their new grandchild, they were astounded when Lorraine said, "No, it's Pete. He just became a father and now I am a stepmother. Isn't that wonderful!"  So here is the whole story, which Pete related at Happy Hour.    A few weeks ago Pete got a phone call from an agency telling him to sit down, they had news for him. Pete sat. There was a phone number to call a 45 year-old man who said he thought Pete "might be his father".  Pete didn't think it was possible because he had always believed he was sterile owing to Malaria. However at Lorraine's insistence, he finally made the phone call.     All the facts fit. And an overwhelmed Peter found he had a 45-year-old son!  Peter had had a relationship during his Army stay in Sarnia. The baby was in foster care and then given up for adoption at nine months, and Pete never knew about it. The boy was raised on a farm outside of Sarnia and everybody in the small town knew he was adopted but him. After both parents died he was told of his adoption and spent the last two years trying to track down his birth parents. He found his birth mother had died but eventually found Pete because of the record of his height.     Pete's new son immediately booked a flight out to see his new dad and they held a joyous reunion last week.     What a story! A man finds out at forty-five that all along he was adopted and tracks down a happy father. A man in a retirement community finds a son he never knew he had. His wife is so happy for him. His stepchildren are happy for him.    And that is why Peter passed out chocolate-stick cigars at Happy Hour.    Just wait till next time my son (who always starts his phone calls by teasing, "Hi, Mom, what is new in your Old Geezer's Village?") calls me. Wait till I tell him!                                                                    ~~Daphne

Here is another story from the current issue of my Cottonwood Retirement Village Newsletter.

Sorry I'm so late!!

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