I am so happy for Daughter #1.  She and her husband divorced when my grandson was two because he was cheating on her. She has dated a little but not very much since then.
She just threw herself into rearing Grandson and taking care of him. A few months ago,  she began corresponding on Facebook with a guy with whom she went to highschool.
Then, they began calling; now they are dating, and they both seem so happy to have reconnected after some 22 years.  They never dated back then, though they were good friends.
I am especially happy that he is someone I know and whose family I know.  He was always such a good kid when he and Kenna were going through school.  I never heard a bad thing about him.
He has, however,  had some rocky moments in his life.   His mother and dad, who were high school sweethearts and went to school with Kenneth, owned a furniture store in Clinton and actually lived in the same neighborhood as we.
When M was a junior, his parents were at a football game watching him play when his dad suffered a heart attack and died.  He was only 38.
Then his only brother, who was two years younger than he, was killed three or four years later in a car accident.
His mother just kind of lost it after that.  She sold the furniture store, moved to Oklahoma City and has been married five or six times in the last twenty years.
M married a girl he met at college.  They had one child; then they had a child die in utero who was born dead.  After a second child was born,   his wife decided when that child was still a baby that she didn't want to be married any more, left him and went back to Houston where she grew up.
He has fought with her constantly for the past five years,  trying to get shared  custody of his children.  Her parents are evidently quite wealthy and have managed to keep the issue tied up in court.  He finally just had to let it go because he was using all his money trying to fight them in court with no results.
Anyway, I hope for both their sakes that things go well for them.  They are both due some happiness in their lives.


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