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Message: <blockquote data-quote="undeg01" data-source="post: 4250358" data-attributes="member: 26476">My ex went off the deep end while she was pregnant with my daughter.  We divorced but I was always there for my daughter from the day she was born.  Ex was diagnosed as a bipolar schizophrenic, left my daughter with family that covered for her and was even institutionalized in a mental facility twice before my daughter was 8 years old.  Even going to court for custody while she was hospitalized, the small town judge would not award me custody.  I fought until I finally gained full custody when my daughter was 10 years old.  By that time I had remarried so I didn’t raise her alone, but I would have if I had been given the opportunity. My daughter took me to my knee surgery last week because my wife was out of town.  While waiting for surgery, she told me how much she appreciated me always being there and showing her what a real parent was. She said she often thinks how different her life might have ended up had she not come to live with me when she was 10.</blockquote>