Why should all the postcards go only to your house? Shouldn't an occasional one brave the mailroom to make it to your desk? Indeed. When Alex decided to stick his finger into a wiffle ball, I knew the time had come. After all, you love comedy, and if you can't laugh at family, USC undergrads and Michigan graduates, at whom can you laugh?
Your grandson decided to stick his finger in a wiffle ball. Perhaps he heard one too many stories about that boy and the dyke. Maybe, but I don't know. His finger got stuck. A decision had to be made, the ball or the finger. It was a nice ball and the kids liked it a lot but Jen decided that Alex might need all 10 fingers at some point. They tried many tactics, but the diabolical ball thwarted them. Eventually, they resorted to going to Alex's doctor. It took an entire pediatric practice to dislodge it, but they did it. As you can tell by the "after" picture, he was happy with just having the ball transformed into a ring, but his mother convinced him to have it removed. With a scalpel and a steady hand, his pediatrician detached Alex's newfound jewelry and allowed his finger to gradually return to a pleasant pink shade from its unnatural purple state.
~Robert A. Patton
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Here are the postcards that were sent to Michael and Alex's grandparents and greatgrandparents via Cardstore.com. I think of them as a mixture of public relations and propaganda. Read enough of their lives, and you can consider yourself a virtual grandparent/aunt/uncle. There are worse things.
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- Robert A Patton
- Dublin, OH, United States
- Robert A Patton is the father of two wonderful boys, Michael and Alex. In many ways they represent all that is good in their father and his love for them is without bounds.
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