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So, no record of him at the dmv... The state child support offices of Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky couldn't find him... Private investigators had no luck. Haven't been able to find him on myspace or facebook for the few years I've been looking. Then, one night, while surfing through myspace, I decided to look for his siblings. I found them. Two of them, anyway. I found one of his brothers and his sister. Needless to say, I started messaging her, trying to find him.... But, in the meantime, I found him on her page. After a few unanswered messages, I decided that he wasn't interested, and we should probably leave well enough alone. Then, on a Thursday night, while I am sitting in my night class, my phone starts ringing...incessantly. I don't recognize the number, so I didn't answer. When I check my messages after class, there are multiple messages from him. After all this time, he wants to be involved. How is it that I was never able to find his myspace page before? Just at the right time, he appears...

So, sitting across the table from Dakota, I lay out pictures of his father, aunts, uncles, cousins, step mother, and his brother and sister. He has a 14 year old brother and a 4 year old sister. He cried and said he wanted to go. After he promised to straighten up and get clean, and a week of talking to his dad on the phone, he was on a plane on his way to Montgomery. And for the first time in a very long time, there was peace in my home.
I talk to him almost daily and some days he sounds happy, while others, he sounds frustrated and homesick. The good days seem more often than the bad.
I wonder how long the honeymoon will last...