Our One Ewe Lamb's Birthday!

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.