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Thank You To the Stepdad, Who Loves Me Like His Own

Thank you for loving me unconditionally through everything.

Oct 08, 2019

Thank You To the Stepdad, Who Loves Me Like His Own

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I want to start off by saying thank you, I know that I don't say it enough to you, nor do I tell you I love you enough. When you came into my life I was around 10-11 I think. I had a feeling that you were gonna continue to be in my life forever. I will admit at first it wasn't easy accepting you into my life, but you were probably the best thing to happen to me. You showed my mom love and made her happy, and you were a strong male figure in my life, someone that I could look up to. I know that when you met me I wasn't the easiest kid, not that I was a bad kid, I just did not know how to handle all the changes happening around me. I know that you have helped provide for me in ways that I don't even know but am grateful for. With you coming into my life I also gained three new siblings, and even though at times we disagree or don't get along I do love and care for them and am grateful they are in my life. You also brought along a dog, who at first I was scared of, but now love her to death.

Since I met you, you were always there for me and became the father figure I needed in my life. When other's stepped back and didn't show up you did. Thank you for coming to my softballs game, being there for me when I was in the hospital with lice, coming to my sixth-grade graduation, my chorus concerts, my high school graduation, and all the other times that you showed up when other's didn't. Thank you for driving me to work and picking me up, for driving me back and forth to Boston when I don't want to take the bus, and for taking me to my doctor's appointments. Most of all though thank you for loving me like I am your own. Thank you for letting me make my own mistakes in life, but also giving me guidance so I don't make other mistakes. Thank you for believing in me, even when I don't believe in myself. Thank you for all the times you give me advice, and I know sometimes you think I may not listen or get what you are saying but I do. I just don't always want to listen. I know that we don't always agree on things but I am so grateful for you and everything you have taught me. I love you.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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