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A Year Ago...
Grand Prize Winner of the "Dear Baby" Essay Contest!
By Gina Shulse
A year ago today, I lived only on a prayer that you'd be everything we hoped. But you've already given us a thousand times more than we could have dreamed.
A year ago, I knew it would be difficult to get out of bed to take care of you in the night, but I had no idea how much harder it would be to stay there and worry or to let you cry. I never would have guessed how much pain it would bring me to let you out of my arms or my sight, even though I know you're OK. I never would have guessed how much a part of me you had actually become.
A year ago today, I knew you'd be beautiful, but I had no idea how beautiful. I didn't know I would look directly into my own eyes when I looked into yours, or that I would touch your Daddy's brown skin, or that you'd have that wild strawberry blondish brownish hair. I never would have guessed that we'd share the same dimples or feet. And I never would have known you'd have such a long body, all the while sharing the same structure with your father. And I really couldn't have guessed that all these features could be put together so beautifully. God was really amazing when he created you!
A year ago, I knew you'd be fun, but I had no idea you'd be so funny! When you make your funny face just because you know it makes us laugh, or when you learned to snort like a piggy in church. You really are a funny guy! I never would have expected you to crawl in such a funny sort of way with your tail bone wagging like a puppy, or to have such wild Christopher Walken hair that we don't even want to train it! I had no idea you'd do all the funny things you'd do. I'm so glad God gave you a sense of humor!
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