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Story 1:
\nn junior year of high school, my dad got remarried to the woman he\u2019d cheated on my mom with several years prior. As an angsty teenager, I was none too thrilled with his new marriage and was honestly pretty cold towards her whenever we saw each other.
\nA year later, my dad was taking me to the airport on my way to college, and my stepmom took off work to meet us there and send me off with a care package. She hugged me and told me that she was proud of me, and when she stepped back, I saw that she had tears in her eyes.
\nIt was at that moment that I realized that she wasn\u2019t a bad person, even if she (and my dad) had done some bad things in the past. Our relationship improved dramatically after that, and now she\u2019s like a second mother to me.<\/p>\n

Story 2:<\/p>\n

When I was 8 years old, my mom got married for the second time. I was very hostile toward my stepfather. He was a nice man, but the very thought of him taking Dad\u2019s place drove me crazy. Mom was torn between us.
\nIt wasn\u2019t until I was 10 when everything changed. It happened when he came to school to defend me from the teacher. I started ignoring him less often and agreed to go for walks together a couple of times.
\nThat same year, on his birthday, I made him a present for the first time: I gave him an envelope with a card where I wrote, \u201cWill you adopt me?\u201d It was the first time I saw a grown man crying while tucked into the shoulder of a little girl. A month later, he became my dad, and after that my daddy.<\/p>\n

Story 3:<\/p>\n

I have always told my children, \u201cJust because I\u2019m not your father doesn\u2019t make you any less my children.\u201d I was never able to have offspring of my own, but my grandpa grew up in an orphanage. He always said the best part of a family has nothing to do with blood.<\/p>\n

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Story 5:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I\u00a0wasn\u2019t thrilled when my\u00a0mom remarried and my\u00a0stepdad moved\u00a0in. He\u00a0tried to\u00a0connect with\u00a0me, but\u00a0I stayed distant. That year, I\u2019d been saving up\u00a0to\u00a0buy tickets to\u00a0a\u00a0big game my\u00a0friends and\u00a0I wanted to\u00a0go\u00a0to, but they sold out before\u00a0I could get them. I\u00a0was crushed and assumed no\u00a0one in\u00a0the house cared. Then, the day before the game, my\u00a0stepdad handed me\u00a0an\u00a0envelope. Inside were the game tickets I\u2019d been\u00a0dreaming\u00a0of. He\u00a0told me\u00a0he\u2019d seen how hard I\u2019d worked to\u00a0save up\u00a0and wanted to\u00a0help. I\u00a0realized then he\u2019d been paying attention all along, even when I\u2019d been ignoring him. I\u00a0finally saw he\u00a0cared about me\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0way\u00a0I hadn\u2019t let myself believe.<\/p>\n

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Story 6:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Story 7:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Story 8:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I\u00a0am a\u00a0stepmother, and the child turns only to\u00a0me\u00a0with all his problems. It\u2019s sad. I\u2019m teaching his dad to\u00a0talk to\u00a0him too.
\nOn the other hand, I understand that it\u2019s easier for me: I can see the situation from the outside, and have less responsibility, so it\u2019s easier to find a common language when you are not responsible for the child 24\/7. But it\u2019s still sad.<\/p>\n

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Story 9:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When I\u00a0became a\u00a0stepmom to\u00a0Lila, she kept her distance. She\u2019d always hide little mementos of\u00a0her mom, like a\u00a0locket she always wore. One day, she came home from school in\u00a0tears, saying she\u2019d lost\u00a0it. I\u00a0could see how much it\u00a0meant to\u00a0her, so\u00a0I spent the whole evening retracing her steps, asking around, trying to\u00a0find\u00a0it. Finally, I\u00a0found the locket under the bleachers near the school gym. I\u00a0think finding it\u00a0changed her mind, just a\u00a0little. Since then, she\u2019s let me\u00a0in\u00a0more, seeing me\u00a0as\u00a0someone who cares, too.<\/p>\n

Story 10:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

All my\u00a0life, I\u00a0dreamed of\u00a0having a\u00a0twin sister. When I\u00a0was\u00a014, my\u00a0parents divorced and my\u00a0father married a\u00a0woman with a\u00a0daughter my\u00a0age. My\u00a0stepmother bought me\u00a0and her daughter the same\u00a0clothes. The funny thing is\u00a0that we\u00a0also had the same names.
\nOne day we went to the beauty parlor with her and the stylist asked, \u201cAre they twins? What\u2019s their names?\u201d The stepmother says our name. The stylist, \u201cWhy do they have the same name?\u201d And my stepmother calmly says, \u201cSo we don\u2019t get confused.\u201d<\/p>\n

Story 11:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Story 12:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A\u00a0friend of\u00a0mine is\u00a0from a\u00a0wealthy\u00a0family. A\u00a0guy twice her age, a\u00a0widower with children, started courting her. She laughed, calling him a\u00a0penniless old man. But one day he\u00a0came to\u00a0her with his 3\u00a0little children. She saw the little ones and something clicked in\u00a0her heart.
\nBecause of those children, she agreed to marry him. And she gave birth to 3 more. She supported her husband, he started his own business and became successful. She raised those kids as her own, they adore her. And her husband adores her.<\/p>\n

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