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We had a long time friend over for dinner while he was back in town visiting for a couple weeks.
He had been in the same crowd with us back when we were all in school and comes back periodically to visit friends and family and stays in touch with "everyone" it seems...he was looking over our family pictures hung in the hallway and ask who the one person he didn't recognize was, we explained briefly about it being my husband birth-daughter from right before we got together, but had only been united just recently......
he got a big grin on his face and an amused twinkle in his eyes, and the first thing out of his mouth was, ooohh wow! and who's the birth-mother???! I replied quickly before my husband could answer that we were "respecting her privacy".
later while they were in the garage together alone this friend again brought it up trying to pump my husband for gossip material, and my husband just stuck to what I had said, also mentioning that the mother/daughter reunion was having lots of difficulties as it was, and he did not want to add to the problems.
this had happened to me once before that incident already, so I was very glad I had a response ready.
People do flat out ask the most personal things,that are none of their business sometimes, so think ahead about how you want to answer these types of people so you are ready.
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