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BANE
Looking me straight in the eyes this handsome young lad says,
"All my friends at daycare have Dad's. Can you be my Dad? Can I call you 'Dad'?"
"Bud, I would be honoured to be your Dad. You call me whatever you are comfortable with" was the only reply I could give.
And then I cried. For I knew at that moment I just made a small heart beat happily and I had committed myself to a lifelong obligation to nurture and raise a son.
My boy had something I never knew existed as a child, a Mom and a Dad.
Thirty-two years later I am still referred to as "Pops" by my Number One Son.
All these years later I still well up with tears when I reminisce of that beautiful day.
I was changed for ever for I had no knowledge or guidelines as to what a father really was, yet there I was being a 'Dad'.
"All my friends at daycare have Dad's. Can you be my Dad? Can I call you 'Dad'?"
"Bud, I would be honoured to be your Dad. You call me whatever you are comfortable with" was the only reply I could give.
And then I cried. For I knew at that moment I just made a small heart beat happily and I had committed myself to a lifelong obligation to nurture and raise a son.
My boy had something I never knew existed as a child, a Mom and a Dad.
Thirty-two years later I am still referred to as "Pops" by my Number One Son.
All these years later I still well up with tears when I reminisce of that beautiful day.
I was changed for ever for I had no knowledge or guidelines as to what a father really was, yet there I was being a 'Dad'.
114 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 27, 2017
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About the author
LightHouse Dann Verner
16 books4 followersOn Christmas morning 2019, My 29 year old son, Delaney Jordan McLean Verner, hung himself in an obscure town in the underbelly of Alberta, Canada.
A town called "Black Diamond".
He and his wife of 12 years, Katelyn had gone their to start a new life.
Hoping to escape the homelessness rut and street life they were “Groundhog Day“ living on the streets of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A dream that collapsed and left them stranded, freezing and hungry in the middle of a viscous minus fifty degree Celsius blizzard.
Although this is my son's biography, it is also a call to attention as to how we are placing the lives of our youth in the hands and care of a "Broken System."
A system that MUST be scrapped and a new approach and system built from scratch.
A task that will take years to complete but is absolutely necessary as we have so many youth in crisis during these present times.
I promised Jordan I would tell his story and that I would show the world how broken our Child Welfare System and it's collective agencies is failing these youth and their families.
That they do far more harm than good.I speak and show in detail what the eleven years of his being in care did to him and our family.
How he fell through every crack in their system.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08FNMPGG6
A town called "Black Diamond".
He and his wife of 12 years, Katelyn had gone their to start a new life.
Hoping to escape the homelessness rut and street life they were “Groundhog Day“ living on the streets of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A dream that collapsed and left them stranded, freezing and hungry in the middle of a viscous minus fifty degree Celsius blizzard.
Although this is my son's biography, it is also a call to attention as to how we are placing the lives of our youth in the hands and care of a "Broken System."
A system that MUST be scrapped and a new approach and system built from scratch.
A task that will take years to complete but is absolutely necessary as we have so many youth in crisis during these present times.
I promised Jordan I would tell his story and that I would show the world how broken our Child Welfare System and it's collective agencies is failing these youth and their families.
That they do far more harm than good.I speak and show in detail what the eleven years of his being in care did to him and our family.
How he fell through every crack in their system.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08FNMPGG6
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