00:00Do you want to come up here, Bubba?
00:01Okay, come here, baby.
00:03Come hold our hands.
00:05Levi, buddy, I may not have been there when you were born or seen your first steps,
00:09but I promise to be there for you in every moment.
00:12I was a single mom, finishing grad school, and trying to raise this little boy.
00:18I remember being so nervous about what somebody would think about me having a child.
00:24Lexi didn't try to hide anything.
00:25I mean, she loved this little boy.
00:27It was very obvious to see that she was such a great mother.
00:30Right away was so accepting of it, accepting of Levi.
00:35And from day one, the two of them just hit it off.
00:38I can remember driving around and playing little kid songs he would just love singing to,
00:44and I would sing along and dance with him, and that was just so much fun.
00:47Our love story was not just the two of us.
00:48It involved Levi as well.
00:50We decided we wanted to give vows to him.
00:53Buddy, I may not have been there when you were born or seen your first steps,
00:56but I promise to be there for you in every moment.
01:00Whenever you want to play, run around in the backyard,
01:03or if you need one more bedtime story, I will always be there for you.
01:06I love you, buddy.
01:08I love you, buddy.
01:11Levi, buddy, I always did my best to give you everything that I could,
01:15and it was just you and I for a really long time,
01:18and there was always one thing that no matter how badly I wanted to, I couldn't give you,
01:22and that was a father's love.
01:24But today, officially, our family is complete,
01:26and you get the daddy that you have always deserved.
01:30I'm so happy for you, buddy, and I love you.
01:32Okay?
01:34You can go sit.
01:38I just kind of said what was on my heart.
01:41I would do everything I could to make sure he was happy and taken care of
01:45and everything I could do for him.
01:47That's all I wanted to do.
01:48I didn't know, actually, what Josh was going to say to Levi.
01:51It was just overwhelming.
01:54It was such a powerful moment just to see their love displayed in front of everyone.
01:59In the moment, I didn't think anything of just him hugging me,
02:03but when I go back and watch it, it's like, wow, that meant a lot.
02:06There's a message out there to all the other single moms as well
02:11that your love story is out there, and don't give up hope.
02:16You will find that person, and you're as deserving of love as anyone else.
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