40 WEEKS I PLANNED, LOVED, AND CREATED A DREAM WORLD.
YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRINCESS AND STAND TALL AND PROUD.
IN ONE MINUTE THOSE PLANS CHANGED, OR SO I THOUGHT.
CHANGED BY ONE TINY CHROMOSOME, ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVED.

I CRIED, FELT SORRY,AND WONDERED WHY AND WHAT I HAD DONE WRONG.
ONLY YOU OPENED YOUR EYES AND CRIED A TINY WONDERFUL CRY.
YOU OPENED MY EYES TO A WHOLE NEW WORLD,
ONE THAT WITHOUT YOU I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN.

THAT WORLD IS STRANGE AND SCARY,
YET WONDERFULLY APPEALING.
BECAUSE OF THAT ONE CHROMOSOME I LEARNED TO BE KINDER,HAPPIER, AND MORE IN LOVE.

I KNOW I STILL HAVE A PRINCESS,
NOT THE ONE I THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE.
BETTER THAN THAT, I HAVE A ONE IN A MILLION BEAUTY,
WHO IS SPECIAL IN HER OWN RIGHT.
A SPECIAL BEAUTY THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE HER MOMMY,
AND WAS SENT FROM GOD ABOVE.
SO THANK YOU GOD, FOR MY VERY WONDERFUL LITTLE CASSIE.

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WRITTEN BY TAMMY
WHEN CASSIE WAS ONE MONTH OLD.
DEC. 1997