I posted this school photo of her on Facebook. It is amazing how alive her eyes are, may she rest in peace. You can see the loose front tooth in the photo. It had not come out and she was buried with a loose tooth. So ironic. So unbearable. Now forty years later her joy in this photo is undiminished.

For those of you who may not know, she was diagnosed with a childhood cancer at the age of almost 4. She died soon after her 7th birthday. I write of her now with amazement that I have survived 40 years without her. But she is not gone. The light cannot be put out, can it?