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We have three children. They are all very special.
We purposely waited (7 years) to have our first because Mrs. DeltAlum wanted to stay at home with them, as had her mother (a college graduate) and her grandmother (also a college graduate, believe it or not). We figured by then we could afford to live on my salary alone. Well, that never happens, so we just bit the bullet and lived on half as much money as we could have for about twenty years.
I think that the added age and maturity gained over those seven years were helpful.
The three are very different -- but wonderful in their own ways. The range from a Magna Cum Laude college graduate, to a hair designer who had a serious drug addiction (sober for several years, thankfully), to a National Merit Scholar who is a freshman in college.
The last twenty-five years have been a real roller coaster of emotions, but I certainly wouldn't trade any of it in retrospect.
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DeltAlum
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The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
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