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It is sad when we realize that we don't know as much about our
friends and acquaintances as we thought we did. We think/hope that
we have an open trusting relationship but that's not always the
case. Too bad that he couldn't have shared his emotions with you
and possibly the pain of it all would have been less.<br>
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Sue<br>
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On 4/30/2011 4:25 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
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this looks a lot like something I posted on Facebook
this morning I thought I should post yet another follow
up on what the results of my search were. It turns out
Tom had turned his back on his family. I won't go into
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Ironically
it never occurred to me in all the years I collaborated
with him on researching my great grandfather's genealogy
to ask him about his family. He sort of seemed to
consider himself part of ours and we have always been a
family that was perfectly willing to adopt people that
way, no questions asked.</font>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I
had a nice long chat a while back with a
good friend of his who was a but hurt that Tom cut off
contact with him too. He always thought Tom would get
in touch some day.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">And
if I already posted all this, I refer you to my
comment on face book this morning.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">L</font>es
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