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My step-dad is the most gentle, understanding, caring man I have ever known. My mother wouldn't let him discipline us in any way so I grew up kind of wild. All along he never lost patience.
It was tougher for him than it was for me. He married a dirt poor immigrant woman who is 4 years his senior who already had 4 boys (15, 11-me, 9 and 7). We did not know how to speak English and he was instrumental in helping us learn the language quickly. He's done a great job as a mentor but not quite a father since that would require having disciplinary duties. Anyway, because of him, all of us 4 boys stayed out of jail, finished college and have good paying jobs.
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