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	DADS NEW LOVE

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3-17-2009 1:02 AM

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3-17-2009 10:33 AM

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Sometimes parents can act like the children and it can be very confusing.

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Twice divorced and lonely, he was planning to sign up with an online dating service. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/dads-new-love/"><P>I was speechless. My dad was 85 years old at the time and living in a retirement community in Maryland. Whom exactly was he hoping to meet?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/dads-new-love/"><P>We heard nothing more until six months later, when Dad placed an urgent call to me from a parking lot in West Virginia. He had news. He’d met a wonderful woman. Now he was contemplating a move from Maryland to Georgia to be with her. She was a lovely person, charming, intelligent, a part-time English professor who had been very involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as he had. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/dads-new-love/">Aghast, I fixated on the red flags. 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