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The special gift: teaching us daily how to laugh, cry, hug and love how to really live.(The First Word: KEEPING IT SIMPLE)

Sometimes, Christmas comes two days late. That's what my wife Bridgid and I learned after our second child was born on Dec. 27, 1995.

All children are gifts from above, but we knew deep down from Day 1 that our James Martin Whitford (aka Jamie) was a special gift.

For starters, Jamie is named after my father. Dad died at age 61 in 1989. I was 23, in the Navy and dating Bridgid. I used to regret that I never shared with Dad how serious Bridgid and I were--that the very day after we first kissed, while lying in the grass with my head on Bridgid's tummy, I told her, "One day, our kids will be in here." I now know that Dad knew everything he needed to know, and a lot more ...

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