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...all Jenifer (George Foreman) #6, #7 and #8.

[Jennifer5]

(wow, really did miss you Awediot.. )

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Emerson, Saxon, and Hilton, all girls. Beth and Jake were proud parents and doted on their daughters. Raising triplets was a daunting task, so Clarisse and Jake's mother came and stayed for 6 months to help them with all the kids.

Jaxon began 1st grade that fall, and his sister, Victoria, began kindergarten. Jaxon's teacher, who liked to have a personal visit with each of her students' parents, invited Jaxon's parents to the conference. Of course, all 4 parents showed up and the teacher was stupefied. "Welcome, I see that we have a cheering section here. Now who are the parents?" she smiled. Marty spoke up, "We all are. My partner, Jake and I, are coparents with Melissa and Beth here." The teacher seemed uncomfortable. Nonetheless, she conducted the meeting professionally and calmly. Afterwards she sent them on their way, and promptly called the principal.

"Jim, we have some wierdos for parents here, and I think they are gonna be trouble. " Jim replied, "We deal with wierdos all the time, Miss Gentry, what makes that so out of the ordinary?" Miss Gentry, or Angela, said, "We have a gay couple who are coparenting with a lesbian couple and they have 5 children together." Jim crowed, "Oh my God! Well, we can't discriminate, those people are militant you know. If we make them mad, they will file a lawsuit on us and we can't have that." Angela agreed.

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Angela was troubled that he wouldn't do anything about it, but not wanting to cause any issues that could risk her job she ignored it and treated Jaxon as any other child.

But when the next year came and she got Victoria, when you found out it was the same family, she went to her board and asked to be placed some where else.

Pretty soon it came time to teach Jaxon and Victoria how to swim. Now here was the fun stuff the parents had been waiting for....

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Meg and Amanda, now well into their late 70's each, decided to take swimming lessons with their great grandchildren. It provided lots of good pictures for the family and Jaxon proved to be a strong swimmer. Victoria, still scared of the water, needed to wait a little while longer. Meanwhile, the triplets were growing up fast.

One day, Emerson was with Meg and Amanda visiting, and she fell off the porch when Meg's toy poodle, Sally, jumped off into the bushes, and she followed and broke her arm. and they rushed her to the hospital. The doctor was dumbfounded when he looked on the intake form to see under Father's name, Marty and Jake Taylor and for Mother's name, Melissa and Beth Martin. Meg and Amanda sat their like prim and proper elderly ladies, and when the doctor looked at them, he said," What is the meaning of this? Two mothers and two fathers? Who ever heard of such nonsense! How can anyone have four parents?" Meg calmly replied, "The fathers are my grandson, Marty and his partner Jake. Melissa and Beth Taylor are the mothers. Beth and Jake are the biological parents." The doctor was shocked." I have seen a lot of strange things, but this has got to be the ..." Amanda stopped him. "Look, Dr. Shapiro, my great granddaughter needs some attention. Could you stop focusing on who her parents are and treat her? Do you pronounce judgment on the crack addicts that come here, or the beaten up prostitutes? Do your job and leave the judgment to the Christians, please?" The doctor stomped out of the room. Minutes later, a rather butch looking female came in and said, "I am sorry, Dr. Shapiro, doesn't take well to us." "Us?" replied Amanda. "Gays and Lesbians." Meg said, "So do we get a doctor?" The butch lesbian said, "Yeah, me, I am Dr. Trahan, and I will be treating your little one here." She went over and tenderly examined Emerson. Just then, Marty, Jake, Melissa and Beth burst in. "Where's
our baby? What happened?" Meg put her hand up, "She fell off the porch chasing the dog, and broke her arm. Dr. Trahan is taking care of her." Beth gasped as Dr. Trahan turned around, "Sandy?" Dr. Trahan said, "Beth?" Melissa said, "So this is the famous Sandy you were dating before me?" Beth nodded her head. Sandy trying to act professionally said, " Emerson has a compound fracture and I am going to have to put a cast on her arm." Sandy took Beth out into the corridor, "Is this little girl yours and Melissa's" Beth still shocked,"Yes"
Sandy said, "I am afraid we have a problem. Her blood analysis...

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(someone else needs to add here... I don't know enough about this stuff)

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showed an abnormal growth of white blood cells. The doctor, also former lover of Beth, looked concerned. "What are we going to do?" Melissa asked.
"Well, I want to send her to Texas Children's Cancer Center in Houston, Texas for tests. That will give us a better idea of what to do." the doctor replied.
Back home, they had to tell Meg and Amanda. They agreed to keep the kids while Marty, Jake, Melissa and Beth flew with Emerson down to Texas. Clarisse offered to help Meg and Amanda. Marty prayed all the way down to Texas for his daughter's safety and healing. Melissa and Beth both slept, and Jake held Emerson all the way, and read to her and played with her until she, too, fell asleep.
At the Medical Center, they were impressed with the hospital, but also taken by shock at the number of children with life-threatening diseases being treated there. It was a hard pill for them to swallow, but they decided to be strong for each other and to help Emerson cope with all the procedures that were to be done to her.

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The hospital was also impressed with the four parents, every one of them completely concerned and looking like they would die if something happened to one of there babies. Beth, Melissa, Jake, and Marty, all looked like walking ghosts, they could hardly speak at the thought of something happening to their baby.

The docters suggested that they stay in a hotel for a few days until the test results came back, so they did. They were shocked to see how they all came even closer to each other as they stayed in the hotel. Every night they found that all four of them ended up in the bed with Emerson.

The next day the hospital called...

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...and the large family rushed to the hospital where some very bad news was waiting.

"The abnormally high level of white blood cells in your daughter's full blood count is what made us request that bone marrow biopsy," said the rather young doctor, sitting behind a desk. Marty stared at the fancy nameplate, J.R. VAUPEL, MD. He wondered how many years this boy had been out of medical school and decided the older doctors must have passed the unpleasant job of discussing test results to this young newcomer.

"The results of your biopsy suggested a diagnosis of Acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It's a type of cancer that causes immature and malignant white blood cells to reproduce in Emerson's bone marrow. We're very lucky she broke her arm or we might not have caught it in time. This disease can move very quickly..."

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All of them in shock, Jake and Marty soon became no help and passed out. It was up to the Beth and Melissa now, and they knew they just had to make it clear that they just had to do what ever was necessary to take care of this issue. So they went to talk to the doctors....

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Meg, Amanda, and Clarisse went to talk to the hospital chaplain, and together they prayed for their granddaughter. Beth and Melissa kept a vigil by Emerson's bedside, as they struggled to tell their precious 3 year old how sick she was. Soon, Marty and Jake joined them.


They contemplated what course of action to take.

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Soon the doctor called them out to talk to them.. and they found that luckly it wasn't quite as bad as they thought... but something still needed to be done so that things wouldn't get any worse.