A surrogate daughter..? 18 2 7 (13) 25 1 30

And who knows one day she may get to read this blog because she is the one person outside my immediate family who knows of the existence of my BlogSpot with its perhaps unique alias..?

Of course to anyone familiar with the content of my blogs it won't take long for someone to recognize the person I am about to describe because I have written about her many times before though not so much just recently?

What precipitated this particular blog then was a conversation with my elder son S whom we haven't seen since Christmastime last Saturday or Sunday evening as my wife and I returned from the Middle East when A-E Face-timed him on her I-pad and she didn't get very far before he bit her head off..? Such is this son's temper sometimes when roused, a less than charming trait he no doubt inherited from his father, but thankfully not so often and behind it is a bad patch of ill health and too much work etc., etc., etc.

So yesterday after writing my second blog since our return I decided to send copies of the 2 of them off by email to this wayward son and at the same time sent him a copy of the blog I wrote recently to help one of his son's decide what kind of a career he should choose: a kind of olive branch initiative on my part because I figured his son A won't have shared it with his Da and and that it might well be that he harbours some resentment associated with his lack of understanding for his eldest son recently..?

So the surrogate daughter I refer to was for many years a follower of my picture parade I used to post of MySpace between the years 2008 – 13 when the Blog was pulled and I decided to walk away from MySpace little by little and finally altogether. We had corresponded on F-Book for a short while before posting the pics of our Lakeland scenery here in Scandinavia, since she had expressed a desire to see such, after our meeting in Glasgow Scotland and spending 2 days sightseeing together 2008 8 27-28.  

Posting the pics coincided with her return home to Japan at the end of 2008 when after she posted pics of her European tour of maybe 2 dozen countries she stopped posting on F-b and at the same time her correspondence stopped.

It is remarkable therefore that somehow we managed to continue a one sided relationship in the sense that only I continued to post but when she continued to hit my two MySpace accounts when normally I would give only one of the two addresses to people I had met on holiday but which exceptionally in her case I gave the two. After a little while I introduced the blog and from her copious blog hits we somehow kept a relationship of sorts going wherein i got some feedback to my writings during all those years..?

But yesterday her profile pic disappeared from my pc here and my friend lists showed one less profile pic so I reasoned she must have decided to abandon F-book..? Only the day before she had climbed from 11^th to 7^th position in my friend lists as everyone else was rearranged, only for the rearrangement to be short-lived but then for her to disappear altogether I was devastated.

Once I stopped posting on MySpace she wrote to me in May 2014 a short note to apologise for not saying anything over the years and then became active herself for a few months as if to bring everyone up to-date with what was happening in her life before dropping back into her reverie or reclusiveness..?

Then in 2016 I decided I too would leave off posting on F-book but then to my surprise she suddenly appeared in my box of 6 f-b friends in my smart phone almost a year after I had walked away from it: on the very anniversary of our sightseeing 2 days in Glasgow and for another subsequent 4 days before disappearing once more..? As a happily married much older man I always maintained our relationship was something akin to a father-daughter one when its nice to go on thinking about her as the daughter I never had..? hahaha. Have a good day everyone how nice when we sometimes get to celebrate something without actually doing anything one way or the other..?