My granddaughter contacted us and asked if she could stop over on a trip to her summer job, with her beau. Well, it took about a nanosecond to say yes, on that one.

So we welcome this beau whom we knew little about. Such a good kind intelligent young man who had just graduated university and was also going out to his summer job working at Philmot the big Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico.

We were introduced to him, both first and last name and never thought a thing about it. Just an above average young man who was respectful, helpful, kind and interesting and treated our granddaughter like she deserves to be treated.

The visit went fine and we were sad to see them travel on. But later that month our daughter, her mother, and our son in law flew in to visit. At some point during that visit my daughter asked us if we knew who this guy actually was. Well, we knew his name and knew he was a good person. But to our surprise my daughter let us know that he was Bill Gate’s ex-wife’s nephew. And Melinda Gates family was far from poor when she married him. Never once was his kid’s family mentioned in any way to give this away to us. He told us what his mom and dad had done for a living, and what his only brother wanted to do with his life. Never once was it mentioned that he belonged to anything but an ordinary middle class family…In fact, my daughter said he only accidentally told them, one night when he had had a couple of beers and let loose a little bit. I don’t think he hides it for any nefarious reason, it is just that he knows he is still just an ordinary human being, who had a bit easier life growing up, but he is an adult now and has his own life and worth to prove.