Giving text outline stroke and path and uniting with other paths

How do I give Lucida handwriting a 2pt outline stroke, give it an outline path, then unite it with another shape path without the text losing it's outline stroke??  I can't bold Lucida handwriting as it only has an italic option, so need to give it an outline stroke to achieve a bold letter.  As soon as I give it an outline path and unite it to other shape paths the 'bold'ness disappears and it reverts to it's original size.  I hope this makes sense!  Any help would be appreciated.

You are welcome, drive.
What you will be looking for is what is called a flowing script (probably a casual flowing script); script fonts are those remembling handwriting.
You may have a look at this website, where you can click (Formal or) Casual Flowing Script and see many different ones (which may give you an overview and possibly some inspiration),
http://www.bowfinprintworks.com/Script07Pg1.html
or you can just search the web for (casual) flowing script font.

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