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Immediately people around me started  [MASK]  at me,and patting me on the back as though they also understood the depth of that unusual speech.For a teenage girl to say  openly  in the front of a room full of people,"I love you",took a great deal of courage.Since then I have come to understand that I didn't need to have any  fear  about being a stepfather.I can still  exchange  honest love with the same little girl I met so many years before-carrying a bowl full of what turned out to be kindness.I can also be friends with the girl-my dear daughter.