Dayton Daily News, January 6th, 2006
After writing a column recently about my daughter Ni-Ni and her "other mothers" -- her birth mother and her foster mother -- I received a touching e-mail from 73-year-old Bob Kienzle. "Actually I'm one or two up on your daughter; I had five mothers," he wrote. "First was my birth mother, who I didn't even know existed until 1994 when I was just short of being 62 years old. Then there was my 'Forever Mommy,' my adoptive mother who died when I was just past my third birthday. I was raised then by my maternal grandmother and finally for 10 years by my paternal grandmother. Then there was a stepm...
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