R.H. and I have one daughter. Even though she hoped for a little sister, it was not to be.
Truthfully, we think she's come to like that she only has brothers.
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How could one little girl have been so much a tomboy, and yet have so much
"enjoyed being a girl"?
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How could a kindergartner who insisted on wearing a purple flowered shirt to school,
with green stripe pants, have grown up to have so much style?
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She continued to amaze us, even going on to earn her degree while raising two sons.
I often stood in awe of the great job she did with both.
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Through a sad year of divorce, one constant was the love between
our grandsons and their mother--
and between our grandsons and their father.
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There were some years there where she once again needed her mother and father,
especially her strong father.
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Eventually there came a day when this Tennessee daughter of ours
met a wonderful man from Massachusetts--in Florida!
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Over time, two families realized that they would be very happy to become one.
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And so they did.
Happy birthday, dearest daughter!
You were beautiful in your wedding gown,
but then you've always been beautiful to us,
even in a purple flowered shirt and green stripe pants.
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