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You Thought I had Children!?

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I sat down at the high-top table in a Greek diner to eat lunch with Geraldo. It was only a few weeks into our relationship. Looking across at him, I still couldn't believe I was in a relationship with him. "Why now?" I suddenly asked him between bites of food. "If you liked me from your first day in Small Group months ago and started learning more about me, what made you finally decide now was the time to say something?" "I thought you had kids," he said. "You what?!" I said, nearly choking on my food.  "I thought you had kids," he repeated, "and I was trying to figure out what had happened to your husband. Had he died or had you gotten divorced?" I stared at him in disbelief.  "What in the world made you think I had kids!?" I finally asked him. "Do you remember the first time I came to help out at Conversation Cafe?" he asked. I nodded yes. "You were sitting at a table with some kids, playing game...