THIS STORY IS ABOUT MY STEPFATHER PANTALEON RIOS. WHERE DO I BEGIN? HE IS AN AWESOME MAN! MY DAD MET MY MOM IN SUMMER 1978. THEY DATED AND THEN DECIDED TO MAKE A START AND LIVE TOGETHER. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1984 AND THEN BECAME CHRISTIANS. AS YRS. PASSED, MY TWO BROTHERS WERE BORN AND WE HAD AN EXTENDED FAMILY OF ME AND A SIS,ALSO THREE OTHER STEPSIBLINGS. THIS WAS QUITE A FAMILY, BUT TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS MY DAD WORKED HARD TO SUPPORT US. HE BECAME A PASTOR AS WELL AND IS STILL SERVING THE LORD. HE LOST HIS DAUGHTER TO A TRAGIC INCIDENT IN 1996 AND THEN MY SIS TO CANCER IN 2006. HE SINCE THEN HAS SUFFERED A STROKE, AS DID I LAST YEAR, AND HIS LIFE HAS TAKEN A TURN, BUT NO MATTER WHAT HE STRIVES TO GET BACK ON TRACK AND NOT LET SATAN WIN. I COULD TELL YOU SO MANY THINGS HE HAS GONE THROUGH AND STRUGGLES OUR FAMILY ENDURED, THIS MAN LOVED CHILDREN THAT WEREN'T HIS. HE WORKED HARD TO MAKE OUR LIVES COMFORTABLE AND HE LOST TWO DAUGHTERS TRAGICALLY. HE IS MY HERO!!!
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