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This is a father's tribute to a remarkable daughter who stood up against all odds.

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Parentalité et Éducation des Enfants

Autobiography

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	02 mai 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669873334
Langue	English

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Princess Alex

A DADDY’S LOVE STORY

Joe Sestak

Copyright © 2023 by Joe Sestak.
ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-6698-7334-1

eBook
978-1-6698-7333-4

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Rev. date: 05/02/2023

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Contents
Chapter 1Heaven
Chapter 2My New Family
Chapter 3Going Home
Chapter 4Exploring
Chapter 5War
Chapter 6“Without You”
Chapter 7Coming Home
Chapter 8Bosox … And Belle
Chapter 9Different Kinds Of Friends
Chapter 10“With You”
Chapter 11A New Adventure
Chapter 12The First Step
Chapter 13Heaven Sent
Chapter 14Teaching The Doctors
Chapter 15Going Home
Chapter 16My Hero
Chapter 17New Expectations
Chapter 18The Journey Begins
Chapter 19New Experiences
Chapter 20Decision Time
Chapter 21Off And Running
Chapter 22New Friends
Chapter 23Back To Work
Chapter 24Settling Down
Chapter 25Growing Up And Raising Daddy
Chapter 26Children And Religion
Chapter 27A Trying Time To Come
Chapter 28The School Of Life
Chapter 29Learning Of Friendship In Life
Chapter 30Life’s Joys And Challenges
Chapter 31Growing Up “Good”
Chapter 32My Two Truest Friends
Chapter 33Politics Of The Season
Chapter 34After Politics
Chapter 35Taking It Seriously
Chapter 36The Age Of Middle School And A Career Choice
Chapter 37True Friendship
Chapter 38Still Growing Up
Chapter 39High School Years
Chapter 40The Final School Years
Chapter 41The Hardest Of Life’s Lessons
Chapter 42Life Has Turns
Chapter 43At It, Again
Chapter 44A Scare
Chapter 45Stepping Out
Chapter 46Oh, Alex!
Chapter 47Finishing It
Chapter 48Parting Ways, Briefly
Chapter 49Beginning Our Last Journey
Chapter 50Balancing The Season
Chapter 51Respite
Chapter 52One More Road To Walk
Chapter 53Seattle
Chapter 54Heading Home
Chapter 55Doctor Packer … And Home
Chapter 56My Last Hospital Stay
Chapter 57The Drumbeat Of Life … Comes From Within
Chapter 58Because We Knew You, We Were Changed For Good
Epilogue
Chapter 1 HEAVEN
Bosox was bouncing with excitement as I bent down to give her a cookie. My doggie was my best friend and I could not love anyone more. I was gently rubbing her Cockapoo fur as she licked my cheek to thank me for the cookie, when I heard a gentle voice call my name, “Alex!”
The goddess of the sky was waving to me and I immediately flew over to where she was sitting. I loved Athena. She ruled our heavens with kindness and caring. We don’t have mothers in our Queendom but if I were ever to have a mother, I would want her to be like Athena.
“Good morning, Princess Alex,” she said. “Let’s hold hands and go on a walk together.” I smiled and reached up to take hold of one of her fingers because my little girl hands were much smaller than hers.
As we walked among the clouds the goddess said, “Alex, I want to ask if you would do something for me.” “Yes, Queen Athena,” I replied, happy that Athena would ask me to help her. “I’ll gladly do whatever you need in our beautiful heavens.”
“Alex, it’s not here that I would like you to do something. I want to ask if you would take a journey to a far-off planet, one where small girls and boys live with their mothers and fathers.”
“But Athena why are you sending me away?”
“I am not really sending you away, sweet Alex; I am asking if you would be the daughter of a mother and father for a few years.”
“Of course, Athena, but why are you asking me to be someone’s daughter? I wouldn’t know how.”
“One of my purposes, gentle Alex, is that I want this distant world to know what goodness really is. You’ll see what I mean my little one, as you grow up living with your new parents. There is another reason but we can talk about that later.”
She squeezed my hand with both of hers, bent down and as she kissed my cheek she asked if I would like to take Bosox with me. I nodded, “Yes,” and the next thing I knew … I was being held in the arms of a man in a faraway land!
Chapter 2 MY NEW FAMILY
The smiling man was rocking me back and forth as he hummed a pleasant tune. I felt as though I had shrunk to the size of a tiny baby girl in his arms – and I had!
I enjoyed the man’s soft humming. It felt as though I were in a happy dream as he swayed me from left to right, and right to left. He kept smiling at me, repeating the tune again and again, “hey-ahey-hey, ahey-hey … hey-ahey-ahey, ahey-hey, ahey-hey …” And just as the man’s gentle song was putting me to sleep as I snuggled in his rocking arms, I heard a soft voice which sounded like goddess Athena’s say, “Why don’t you sit down, Joe, and I’ll hold Alex so you can rest?”
I somehow sensed that the man didn’t really want to put me down nor that he needed to rest. But he immediately carried me over to a beautiful woman and as he laid me tenderly in her arms said, “Our new love, Susan.” And then I knew true happiness when a woman as gentle as any angel I played with in the heavens kissed me as she lovingly said, “Our beautiful daughter, Alex.”
I really had become a daughter! And this was my mother – so breathtaking and kind. And her next words were to begin my love story on this planet, “Your Daddy and I are so happy to have you born into our lives, Alex, and we’ll be taking you home with us.”
I tried to say how wonderful that made me feel but found I could only gurgle with joy.
Chapter 3 GOING HOME
As my Daddy was carrying me into our home, I heard a dog barking that sounded just like Bosox! I saw her run over and jump up on Daddy, trying to lick me as he held me in his arms. Bosox was here in our new world just as Athena had promised. We were together again for our new adventure.
And what an adventure it was! Waking up Mommy in the middle of the night for milk; then being handed to Daddy to put me back to sleep as he rocked and hummed me his tune. During the day we explored the new planet which Queen Athena had sent Bosox and me to, where everything was so very different from living in heaven.
But Mommy and Daddy made it easy to adjust. If I wanted to wipe my nose (we don’t have runny noses in heaven) I could just do it on Daddy’s jeans as he said, “That’s what Daddies are for.” And when he came home from his job, I would run to open the door, jumping and shouting, “Daddy’s home, Daddy’s home!” We would then hold each other’s hands as we twirled in a circle hopping up and down to our favorite song, “With or Without You” (it was only later that I would come to realize the true meaning of these words for my new family). But back then, Daddy and I would dance and bounce to the music until we were so worn out that we’d collapse together … and Mommy would call out, “Come to dinner you two!”
Daddy was like a big brother, guarding me against jumping “sprickets” that would suddenly hop across the carpet in front of me. He’d chase these jumpy creatures and if he couldn’t catch them, they’d quickly hop right back to where they’d come from. Then at night he’d always be the last to tuck me into bed as we looked at each other and would both say, “See you in the morning,” and Daddy would add, “I love you to the Moon and back, Alex.”
Mommy and I learned to draw together, leaning over paper with our crayons at my small artist’s table. Every day we’d play games that she had known as a young girl or ones I made up. We would even change the rules of the games if we felt it would be more fun! After dinner we would catch fireflies in our neighborhood with my very own firefly net catcher. I caught so many that the homemade box I put them in seemed to light up the path as we walked back home slowly, not wanting to go inside yet. And just before we did go into our house, I would open the small door of my firefly box and my new friends would fly back to their own home for nighttime.
Holding onto one finger of Mommy and one of Daddy, we would say goodnight to the beautiful moon, and I would quietly send a thank you kiss to Athena for sending me to this wonderous planet and my happy home and parents.
Chapter 4 EXPLORING
Bosox and I began to explore this new world further and further away. I could also see more of the planet as Daddy carried me high up on his shoulders when we walked. And then Bosox and I began to ride to distant places in what Mommy called a car. We just got in, turned a key and off we went. I had my own special seat in the back that Daddy said was “my throne.” As we were driving along with Bosox beside me one time, I looked out the window and found myself saying, “Isn’t it a beautiful day!? Looking at the world is just amazing!” as my parents smiled. Years later when I opened Daddy’s wallet for some money, I smiled myself as I saw he’d written down what I had said that day when I was so very young.
And it was amazing! Daddy and I would go exploring everywhere. We’d chase rabbits and walk along streams, crouching down to look at fish and catch turtles, and get dirty in the m