
Just a bit of background. When I came out to my Mom, I was an emotional wreck, and wasn't exactly quiet about it. Maddie overheard me telling my Mom some pretty earth shattering news. About 30 minutes later, I see a note slipped under my door:
"Dan. I heard what you told Mom. I'm totally ok with it. I still love you no matter what."
-Maddie
How adorable is that? She's pretty much the Greatest.
Do ya'll remember taking those required "comp-tech" classes in middle school? You know, the ones where they sit 30 kids down in a computer lab and try to teach kids about the Interwebz, when really all they are doing is trying to hack your site blocker and get onto addictinggames or facebook? Yeah, well Maddie is in one right now. One of their assignments was to make personal blogs. They were required to list some of the blogs with which they kept up and about 8 of her friends listed the BDU blog as their favorite. Yeah, thats right. Not only does Maddie (and my entire family for that matter, thanks Mom) read the blog, but her friends have started to read it too.
I brought her home a Love=Love shirt for a Thanksgiving present. Her eyes were beaming when I showed it to her. I could tell she couldn't wait to wear it around, not only repping Duke but repping LGBT equality. I also found out over break that Maddie has become a confidant to one of her LGBT identified friends, and I could not be prouder. My sister is pretty great.
I hope that the Duke loss and finals aren't keeping ya'll down. Put your heads down, #occupy Perkins, and power through. We're almost there.
Oh. My. God.
ReplyDeleteYour sister is like, My Favorite of the day.
I absolutely love this, I hope you saved/will frame that note.
I love posts like this.
ReplyDeleteThe whole Wood family is amazing! My kids are so blessed to have you as friends and Sarah is so lucky to have Maddie as her BFF! Dan, you are an ispiration because of your character! Love from the Molinaro's!
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