Welcome back, Dana's and Becky's.

Gosh, it has been a few weeks, took some time off, and unexpectedly my stepfather passed away.

My stepfather Rick, who maybe you knew as the character Bill on my TV series, One Mississippi.

He raised me since I was two.

We had quite the relationship.

You know, when my mother passed away ten years ago, it cracked him open in a way.

The circumstances, life, and just kind of having to step up to parenting me and my brother,

even though we were adults.

And my biological father had passed away soon after my mother.

So Rick was our parent.

And very sadly, that was my last parent.

And we really, over the past ten years, grew together.

And so much of it had to do with his love for my children, Max and Finn.

He absolutely lived for them.

And it's been very, very painful to say the least.

I didn't think I was going to lose him.

Like I said, it was unexpected.

He developed pneumonia after he had choked on some food that went into his lung and that caused pneumonia.

And very eerily after taking antibiotics, he developed C-diff, the disease that I had ten years ago.

And that is what killed him.

It also landed on the ten year anniversary of the day I took my mother off life support.

And I took Rick off of life support.

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