This is my stepmother Barbara with my brother Dan in about 1983. I don't in any way think of her as a stepmother since she has raised me since age 7. I often think about what it must have been like for her to be handed a seven year-old to raise at age 25. It blows me away to think that she was able to do that. I'm nowhere near ready to raise a child of my own, let alone someone else's. Anyway, she's also an attorney but she has successfully structured her career so that it has almost never interfered with her giving her full attention to raising my brothers. It has amazed me to see the time and energy she has put into ensuring that my brothers are happy well-adjusted kids.


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