Today is Wednesday, June 1st, 2005; Karen's Korner #558
Today is the day our daughter, Merry, was born in 1973. As most of you know, she had lots of health problems and surgeries the last year of her life before she was killed in late summer of 1999.
When I dug through some of my "sent" emails a few years ago, I found this one that I had forwarded to her in early July 1999. Because of her surgeries, Merry had more incision scars and a shaved head. "Enormously Gorgeous" was written by a seventh grader who was been made to understand by her dad what "gorgeous" really meant. Most dads want to have sons, but it's their daughters who can charm those daddies:
To Be Enormously Gorgeous
My dad says I am ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS. I wonder if I
really am.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Sarah says you need
to have beautiful long, curly hair like she has.
I don't.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Justin says you must
have perfectly straight white teeth like he has.
I don't.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Jessica says you can't
have any of those little brown dots on your face
called freckles.
I do.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Mark says you have to
be the smartest kid in the seventh-grade class.
I'm not.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Stephen says you have
to be able to tell the funniest jokes in the school.
I don't.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Lauren says you need to
live in the nicest neighborhood in town and in the
prettiest house.
I don't.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Matthew says you can
only wear the coolest clothes and the most popular
shoes.
I don't.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Samantha says you need
to come from a perfect family.
I don't.
But every night at bedtime my dad gives me a big hug
and says, "You are ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS, and I love you."
My dad must know something my friends don't.
by Carla O'Brien
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