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Taller Than Anyone Thought He Could Be
Part of my new life, after my reinvention in 2006 when I resigned from my job as a classroom teacher and gave away my real estate clients to people who could better serve them, includes spending time with people I may have never met in the past. Even though I’m an introvert I have found these experiences to be ones I would not trade for the world.
One family I met was through my church. We first became friends in 2012 when their youngest children were nine and eleven. There is also an adult daughter and it was she who first brought us all together. She was living in Santa Barbara, one of the two communities I call home and needed some guidance with a job and living situation. We met at the family’s home in my other city, Santa Clarita to get to know each other and to discuss some options for how I could be of help.
This story is about the middle child, Kyle. He was just a little fellow when we first met. Soft spoken and shy, he was always polite to me. Most of the time he and his younger sister sat quietly while I was speaking with his parents and older sister at their house. When there would be a lull in the conversation I would ask one of them a question about school or friends and they would answer with one or two words unless I asked them to elaborate.
