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Ok, this was kinda cool...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_ ... y_surprise

An army mechanic overseas in Iraq found out his leave would coincide with his son's 6th birthday, so he hid in a four foot tall box wrapped up as a giant present.
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I guess that should've gone into the news thread, but it's totally awesome. Though I wonder what the boy thinks "the war" is ... and what he'll think when he grows up.
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Prak_Anima wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_ ... y_surprise

An army mechanic overseas in Iraq found out his leave would coincide with his son's 6th birthday, so he hid in a four foot tall box wrapped up as a giant present.
That's some awesomely creative parenting.
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The article made me grin until:
"He has to work," Gabriel said. "He works in the war."
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