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You make us more than honored to be your parents.\u00a0 A scholar, musician, athlete, and all around gentleman with a kindly heart and profound faith, you never cease to amaze everyone who knows you.\u00a0 And this is just the beginning.\u00a0 To paraphrase the immortal words of the prophet Bill Watterson, it\u2019s a brand new magical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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