At the apartment I lived in, in Springfield. Every year they had a cook out ( really everyone sat in the commons area on the first floor. While someone cooked the burgers on the grill outside.) One year I got picked to do the grilling. So I took the box of pre-made patties out to the grill. My friends Matt Roystone and Janine Walley were out there with me, to keep me company and to take patties inside when the plate was full. We laughed, we joked, and we drank soda. When all the patties were made. I opened a package of hamburger and grilled three patties, one for myself and the other two for them. While the patties cooked, I sliced open some rolls to eat them on.
Another thing I remember from that time. One evening Matt and I went to the store next to our building, and bought a pint of ice cream each. Them we went back to the building, sat on the bench across the driveway and ate our ice cream and talked. When our pints were finished, we continued to talk until the sun went down
My friends Mark and Elisa West had just had a baby girl. One day I met them in the hall on my way outside. Elisa asked if I wanted to hold her baby. ( Now before this time, I had no thoughts about having kids, or had I ever held a baby) When Elisa placed her child in my arms. I just melted, it was like a wall inside me fell, or maybe a dam burst. From that moment on I wanted to be a dad
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