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"Last night Peter showed up for his mid-week visit, complaining impatiently at the kids, who were dragging their feet getting out the door. David finally ran down the driveway and climbed in the car while I followed him out with the overnight bag. That&amp;#039;s when I noticed that the big blanket Peter keeps in the back seat was moving. A head popped out and I was faced with a mortified ten year old girl who was obviously stunned to see me staring at her. He&amp;#039;d brought Maddie (Stacie&amp;#039;s daughter) with him and made her stay in the car instead of letting her come in the house with him. Did he think I&amp;#039;d throw a chair at her? Call her names? She&amp;#039;s a kid. And what&amp;#039;s more, she&amp;#039;s one of Anna&amp;#039;s friends. I&amp;#039;m going to treat her just like I&amp;#039;d treat the rest of them.  He walked out to the car a moment later without a word and just sat behind the wheel waiting for Anna. I finally went over and introduced myself to Maddie since he obviously wasn&amp;#039;t going to. Way to make a kid uncomfortable, Peter. I was just sick to my stomach at the look on that kid&amp;#039;s face when she realized I saw her. Like she did something wrong. She did nothing wrong. She shouldn&amp;#039;t be made to feel unacceptable. EVER. I know just what he was thinking. It was easier for him to not have to introduce her, because that would have made him uncomfortable. And it&amp;#039;s better to humiliate a ten year old girl than make Peter uncomfortable in any way. I wish Stacie could have seen that idiocy. I&amp;#039;m sure she&amp;#039;d have some thoughts about her kid being treated like an embarrassment. I&amp;#039;d be furious. I&amp;#039;m furious on her behalf. Oh, that man. I just smiled and waved as they pulled out of the driveway because I didn&amp;#039;t want to get into it in front of the kids. I&amp;#039;m thinking about having a short talk with Anna tonight and have her communicate to Maddie that it&amp;#039;s OK to come in the house if she&amp;#039;s ever with Peter like this again. I want her to know she is welcome in my home. I always extend an invitation to her for the kids&amp;#039; birthday parties via Peter - now I&amp;#039;m wondering if she ever got any of those invites. Was your ex this paranoid about you meeting the other people in his life? I just can&amp;#039;t believe he did this! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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