Song: He didn't have to be
By: Brad Paisley
"Speaking of family we've got some great news." A young couple in the back stood. When Jack saw the wife put a hand lovingly to her tummy he lost all focused on what he'd been trying to puzzle out. "We're expecting!"
Cheers and congratulations were thrown like confetti. When the husband was wrapped in a hug by an older man Jack overheard: "you'll be a great dad." And saw the younger man go a bit rigid.
"I hope so." The husband replied.
"What are you worried about?"
"Well…." His wife put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "In all honesty." He continued. "I hope I'm at least half as good as you."
"I feel a story in that." Molly said.
"Oh, no, no, no, no."
"Yes, yes, yes!" The family chorused.
"Go on Paul." His wife said.
Paul was led to the front and surround by kids, finally started. "When I was really young my birth father died, and that left my mom to raise me on her own. She wanted to find someone who would love us both, and make our family more whole. However she was very picky and single parents don't tend to attract a lot of guys."
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"Then one evening I was invited to go with my mom and her date and we had a blast! Later, one night I was supposed to be asleep, I overheard them in the living room and when he proposed it took everything I had not to run out and beg my mom to accept." Paul looked at the man who hugged him. "He became my dad and the three of us were a family. Now with this little one on the way, I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be."
Almost every female eye I had some tears and, though they'd never admit it, some of the males as well!