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Sounds like the girls are in the best of all possible situations. You being their dad is the best thing for them. Even though you're not their biological father, and whether or not they call you Dad, you are their dad, and that's not going to change. It only takes a dick to be a father, it takes a real man to be a dad. Tell the girls every day that their mom loved them, and tell them every day that you love them. Give them lots of love and affection, cuddles and kisses. Spending time reading with them at night is a very valuable contribution to their education... my mom read to me every night, when I got old enough to read, I read to her, and because of all that, I was reading at a fourth grade reading level in first grade, and I still love to read to this day. Teach them to be independent and strong, and to always be themselves.
Oh, and the whole acting like a dog thing... does the dog get more attention than Megan sometimes? My baby sister did that sort of thing... the dogs were my step-mom's first "babies", so when they got my sister, it was an adjustment. My step-mom always treated the dogs with kid gloves, and they could do no wrong, while my sister was always getting in trouble. She started acting like a dog figuring if they could do no wrong, then neither could she. Didn't work, but got my step-mom's attention that she needed to change her ways.
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