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You got knocked on it. Say hello. He's there, but he had finally come back from deployment
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but he wanted to make his homecoming extra special for his son
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It was a really happy time for me, probably one of the happiest days I've had
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He had been gone for over 11 months. Deplomas can be hard
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And while it was his second deployment, it was his first deployment. It was his first deployment. first one with the child
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Not only just hard for the soldier, but it's also hard on the family members too because they're
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living their lives without their soldier there. So when their soldier finally did come home, I lost it
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Two-year-old Kaden got to unwrap the best gift of all. Oh, let's open it
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Let's see. You don't have to. Open! Just looked at it. Look at him. Papa
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You know my father? Oh, my God. Honestly, it brought me very joy to just to see that
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even though for that time that I was gone, that he was able to, you know, remember me for
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you know who I am and stuff like that you know that he recognized that you know okay this is my dad Cody had been a bit nervous about Kaden reaction because he was only one when Cody left
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We're actually doing it. Being gone away from that long, even though we were doing like the FaceTime and stuff like that
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I was really kind of expecting him to be standoffish because, I mean, Caden was only, he was just like a year and a half when I
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you're going to half old when I left. And then here it is now, he's two and a half, actually, almost three now
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And so even though we did the calls and stuff, I just kind of didn't really, didn't really know what to think, you know, didn't really know what to expect
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He didn't expect it to be so incredible. The first hug, it was pretty incredible, actually, you know, just being gone during that all that time
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And then just only being able to see his face, you know, like, on a recording or, you know, something like that
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And then not being able to feel him or anything, you know, and then actually being able to, you know, hug him
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for the first time, you know, it was a pretty big deal for me
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you know, it was pretty awesome. How are you? Who is that
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Who is that? Oh. Kaden, who is that? You got so big
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Yeah. Who is that? Who is that
