My Stepdaughter's Birthday

This week my stepdaughter is turning 17. That just happens to be the age that her father was when he found out he was going to be a father.
I want to tell her how blown away I am that she is almost an adult. It seems like only yesterday she was a little girl. I remember her playing with our little hotdog puppy, drinking a coke with 4 straws, and us laughing together at the size chain Roger bought her to lock up her bicycle.
I want to tell her that I love her. I know our relationship has been far from perfect, but I love her like she was my own. That might seem strange to her but I do. I think of her almost everyday. Katherine and I pray together every night and she is always in our prayers. We pray for her happiness, and that she does well in school. We pray that she gets along well with her mom and they have a good relationship. But most of all we pray that one day, if it's 1 year or 20 years from now, that she will come to see us and we can all be together.
Hey NMB, here is wishing you a wonderful 17th birthday- May they get better every year of your life and may all your dreams come true!

Love, Robbin