Valentine's day is a bit different for the Wook and I as our Angel was born and died on Valentines day in 2009. We were never big on the V-day BS anyway, but it is now much more meaningful anniversary for us.
There isn't a set thing that we do or anything. But this year will be a bit different, as we will be having Rio for a sleepover to allow her parents to have a romantic night. This was not planned but the reason that is particularly interesting is that Rio would have been about 3 months younger than Angel, had she lived and been born when expected.
I honestly hadn't considered that when we first became friends with her mother and formed a family-like relationship with her. It was actually my Mum who made me aware that my pseudo-daughter was pretty much the same age and would even have looked quite like my actual daughter. Not that she said anything, but she sometimes gets a bit teary when Atti and my niece are ever just the two of them, because she is only a few months older than Angel would have been.
So tonight, on her birthday, we will kind of have a night of the family we might have had.
Which is a nonsense really. No way would we live here with two kids. I wouldn't have gone to law school. We might never have had Atti. Or he might be older. Or whatever. But still, it is interesting.
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