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TikiGardener
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Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 1359
From: 1st website dedicated to Tiki Gardens
|  Posted: 2005-12-05 1:39 pm Permalink
Ok,
I've clued a few people in on why I haven't
been posting on Tiki Central with my usual frequency.
Well now that things have settled slightly,
I can tell part of the story.
And its an involved one.
18 years ago, the girl I had been seeing a few months earlier, notified me that she was pregnant.Well long story short, she had a daughter, and she was put up for adoption.
Fast forward to the begining of November this year. I basically got the internet version of the
knock on the door.
I have been spending the last month getting to know my daughter Sharie. The process was mostly via internet, but last week, we arranged to finally meet.
I've documented the meeting and the few days that we spent togehter.
She has her fathers flair for the melodramatic. As she wanted to meet at the fountain at Balboa Park. And she added the flair of standing facing the fountain, so she wouldn't see me walking up. Because she said she wouldn't know how to react if she saw me from a distance.
So anyways, heres a link to the photo album
http://mygirl.shutterfly.com
the password is devildoll
so there you have it. as you can see, i've been
a little preoccupied!
be dropping in from time to time....
[ This Message was edited by: TikiGardener 2005-12-05 20:09 ]
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Formikahini
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 22, 2002
Posts: 1491
From: Houston, Texotica
| Posted: 2005-12-05 2:52 pm Permalink
Wow, TG, you got some strong genes there!! Mouth, nose, eyes - everything!!
You'd probably have known she was your daughter from across the room, even if you weren't planning on meeting her, so strongly does she favor you!!
I'm so happy that it was a happy ending for her, especially - that her father wanted to meet her and treated her with love. That will make a HUGE (positive) difference in her life, I predict.
Congrats on gaining a beautiful (grown) daughter 
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Did you give her a tiki?
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Matt Reese
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Joined: May 09, 2005
Posts: 1119
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2005-12-05 3:15 pm Permalink
Congrats. The pictures tell a wonderfull story. Good for you.
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Humuhumu
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Aug 22, 2002
Posts: 3536
From: San Francisco
| Posted: 2005-12-05 3:42 pm Permalink
What a thrilling, and emotionally riotous thing, to be going through! She is darling. TG, you are such an open and caring person -- I cannot put myself in your daughter's shoes, but if I were going through a crazy life circumstance like that, you're exactly the sort of guy I would hope to find on the other end of it. Congratulations on your new family!
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rodeotiki
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Joined: Jan 21, 2004
Posts: 1513
From: calgary
| Posted: 2005-12-05 4:30 pm Permalink
From those photo's I get a sense of family from the 2 of you already. Congrats and best wishes on what the future holds for you and your daughter.
Thanks for thinking enough of us to share.
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Satan's Sin
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Joined: Jun 13, 2004
Posts: 729
From: Imperial Beach, CA
| Posted: 2005-12-05 5:28 pm Permalink
What a beautiful girl. Speaking as a father, I find kids to be the sweetest when they are really small and then when they are really big. Congratulations.
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mrs. pineapple
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2003
Posts: 611 | Posted: 2005-12-06 3:34 pm Permalink
I love stories like this that have a happy ending!
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Tangaroa
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Joined: Apr 25, 2002
Posts: 1550 | Posted: 2005-12-07 07:27 am Permalink
Amazing photos TG... I can't imagine what that must have been like for you! Very touching...
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10600
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2005-12-08 09:30 am Permalink
Scott, congrats. That is the best excuse to not be on TC I ever saw. you're a Big Daddy now!
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purple jade
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Joined: Feb 19, 2003
Posts: 1450
From: New Orleans
| Posted: 2005-12-08 11:52 am Permalink
Boy is Formikahini right about the resemblance!
Look at the identical expressions, especially the set of the lips!
What a cool story...
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TikiGardener
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 1359
From: 1st website dedicated to Tiki Gardens
| Posted: 2005-12-09 01:34 am Permalink
Well to be fair, she really does look a lot like her mother also.
Amazingly so. Its nice, she turns one way and I see myself, and
the angle changes just slightly and its all her mother.
She wears both of us very well.
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tiki_kiliki
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Joined: Apr 01, 2002
Posts: 990
From: Hamtown USA
| Posted: 2005-12-11 11:37 am Permalink
What a fanstastic experience! I wish you both such a wonderful future together. And yes, the resemblance is remarkable.
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Rain
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Joined: May 27, 2002
Posts: 431
From: Providence, RI
| Posted: 2005-12-11 2:55 pm Permalink
man, how cool is that? congrats.
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TikiGardener
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 1359
From: 1st website dedicated to Tiki Gardens
| Posted: 2005-12-17 12:15 pm Permalink
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On 2005-12-05 14:52, Formikahini wrote:
Did you give her a tiki?
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No but I did end my multi year boycott of Disneyland and took her to the
tiki room.
http://mygirl.shutterfly.com
the password is devildoll
More photos being added for that and the Star Wars closing day party at FIDM.
[ This Message was edited by: tikigardener 2005-12-17 12:51 ]
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TikiGardener
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 1359
From: 1st website dedicated to Tiki Gardens
| Posted: 2005-12-31 4:08 pm Permalink
Added xmess pics.... No tikis sorry...
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