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[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

Most persistent spam ever I'm assuming that this isn't for a Viagra support group How the hell do you do this?

Hello. I got tired of deleting the email from my inbox and this seemed to be the only way to get it to stop. I'm not entirely sure what comes next but I hope it doesn't result in more random emails from mysterious sources. Is there a next step to this or am I free to reclaim my internet connection again?

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[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

I'm going on 8 years of teaching elementary school. I've only been at PS 192 for the past year, though. I help out with tutoring kids in music, too. Piano, mostly, but we're looking into adding guitar.

My hat's off to you for handling high school kids. They're too much for me! I did my student teaching stints in high schools.

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Really? My late wife Carmen was a music teacher. My two older kids definitely got a love of it from her. I appreciate it and love it, but I'm not all that great of a musician, personally.

And they're good kids, really. Nothing like helping shape young minds, right?

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

Music is a gift, I think, and kids pick it up so much easier. I find that it helps create a common language with them, too. My kids at the club tend to have a bigger age range so sometimes I need that help more than others. It's a lot easier to get a 7 year old to think you're cool than a 14 year old. That's when they start teaching us.

No, there's nothing as amazing as working with kids. It puts everything into better perspective.

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

It's definitely a calling. You got any kids of your own?

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

Only the ones I borrow 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. None of my own. Maybe some day. Got to meet a girl first. You said you have a kids? How many?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Well, it's never too late.

Me, I've got three: Devin, Harper, and Cian, who was one of the Yule babies of the group. And, my girl Ebony just informed me recently that we're expecting another in late September.

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

Congratulations! You're going to have your hands completely full with all of those kids. Especially as I gather that these latest kids grow pretty fast.

And this is the same Ebony as Lilith, right?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

It's more spread out than that. Devin will be turning 18 this summer, and Harper just turned twelve back in November.

And, yes, she sure is. It's kind of nice having little ones around again.

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

Wow. So it almost sounds like you're doing it in rounds. How are Devin and Harper enjoying being extra-big siblings?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Well, Ebony was definitely a surprise. After the car accident, well... I was so focused on my kids and job that I wasn't even thinking about looking. And she found me.

And they're having a ball. Sometimes a little awkward with the fact that they have an immortal brother, but they take things in stride. Make great role models.

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

Sometimes that happens. My best friend back home found his wife that way. He was so focused on med school and establishing a practice that she practically had to hit him over the head. Now they have a really cute one year old.

That is great to hear. Harper and Devin sound like incredibly special kids and Cian's lucky. I get the feeling that this group of Yule kids are going to need all the support and acceptance they can get.

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Guess that means you just never know when the right girl will walk into your life.

They really are a special bunch. But no bunch of kids will ever be more loved. They've developed their own little network already.

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

I guess so. A guy can only hope to be lucky enough and smart enough to realize it.

I look forward to meeting them all. And the adults, of course.

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

I'm sure you will eventually. The people who brought us all together here do have a way of... enabling in-person contact.

[mr-bes.insanejournal.com]

That doesn't sound ominous at all. Not at all.

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Oh, not trying to scare you. But we have, on occasion, been led to places outside of the world as we know it. Sort of like a pocket dimension, if you will. Seems to be their way of ensuring our safety.