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Sometimes a stepparent has to take a step back. When I was thirtyfive, I met my husband and came to __1__ his kids, aged 10 and 7. We __2__playing basketball and shopping for cartoon books and became great friends. Then I got __3__.
In most __4__， stepkids live with their mom and stepdad.This makes our case quite __5__. Four years into our marriage, after going between their mom's place and ours, the boys __6__ in with us fulltime.
I was __7__ a parttime friend, so everything changed.For example, __8__ the kids to help didn't appear an important thing before, but now they became unwilling. Once, after I'd asked my
