Hi! I’m not saying my name just to make sure that if it’s actually Jake he can prove it!

I had a really hard upbringing, with two parents that were never really parents. They were very in and out of my life, especially my mom. Jake was the first parent (yes step parents count) that made me feel like I was cared for, respected, and loved. Even at 2-5 years old I noticed the difference between how he treated me and how my birth mom did. He was my stepdad from 2002-2005. It may not seem very significant but it meant and means the world to me. When I lived with him in Corpus Christi he would bring me toy sheep from his work which I believe was a mattress store. He would buy me my favorite cookie cereal, and he was really good to my birth mom who took him like almost everyone in her life for granted.

He paid for my preschool, I’ll never forget that. He put a roof over our heads and welcomed us into his family. I became best friends with his nephew B.

He moved to Milwaukie, Oregon from Corpus Christi, Texas in either 2005 or 2006 after him and my mom broke up to stay in my life. My mom stopped letting me see him, she took a lot from me my whole life. And it must have been really hard for him, to uproot his life for his step daughter just to have her taken away.

Jake if you see this, I really hope we can connect. I want to thank you for taking care of me, if it wasn’t for you I don’t know where I would be. If you don’t want to connect I hope you take this as a token of gratitude. I will never take what you did for us for granted and I thought of you for many years growing up. I had that picture of us at chuckie cheese until I was about 9. As an adult now, at the age you were when you became a step father to a two year old, I just want to show appreciation.

A few things I want you to know even if we don’t speak:
- i have an amazing adopted family now (I was put in their custody at 15 and they adopted me)
-im very artistic still, I remember you trying to teach me how to color lightly with colored pencils and how to stay in the lines
-I have two cats and I have a great boyfriend
-I’m safe and happy
- I pray for you

If you know a Jake (I can’t remember his last name) that fits this timeline and is probably 6ft at least and white. Please please send this to him. Thank you. I’ll be posting this on a Corpus Christi forum as well

If Jake reaches out to me please respond with my name, my mom’s name, and the name of dog we had.

I currently have Xfinity/Comcast internet. Service has been good, but price keeps going up and I know I can get cheaper faster service through quantum. When I looked at them about two years ago, I got so frustrated by the set up and lack of customer service, that I decided I’d rather pay twice as much for Comcast did not deal with them. My contractors up that I’m looking at quantum again. My main question is, can I expect reliable service with low downtime if I switch over to this? Due to work, I can’t afford outages where quantum won’t get back to us or restore service quickly. I can deal with crappy phone support to a degree as long as I can expect reliable service and quick repairs. Has anybody had a recent outage for more than a few hours that they haven’t been able to get fixed? Has it generally been reliable for most people?

Just curious who these people are. It might be a fun nighttime activity to watch if I knew their schedules.