Friday, November 11, 2011
I love you, Teresa, more than words could ever say. You are my inspiration, the wind beneath my wings. From the first time that I held you in my arms as a little baby, staring up at me with those little dark eyes and all that dark hair, trustingly and so innocent, I have known my heart belonged to my little sister. You gave me my first practice at the stirrings of the protective instincts of maternal love, and then just less than a decade later you began to be the second little mother to my two children, your niece and nephew. As a teenage mother, I could not have raised them without you. Though you might be going on ahead to pave the way, I know I will see you again, and you will always be right here, in my heart, forever, until we meet again in heaven. I have your loving kitty cat, Orange Thang with me--we are good buddies now, and please wait for us by the rainbow bridge.
