June 1, 2005
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I hope you all are well
I just thought that I’d stop by and share this with you all…
My oldest daughter, Dora won 1st place in a poetry contest!! Here’s the poem…
A Gift
I sit
Waiting
Watching
Making no movement whatsoever
Scanning the horizon for something
Never
Ever
To be
For my brother to be so called “normal”
To not be “cursed”
Some would call it Autism
A curse to some
To others they call it retardation
But to me
I call it something
Beautiful
~ Dora O’Quinn
Comments (14)
That is beautiful! Way to go DORA!
Big sisters are wonderful blessings!
That is really a very beautiful poem even more as its about Dora;s brother
Aww thats very sweet
But yeah some people call diferent diseases like that a curse, but I have a friend that has abrother with down syndrome, and hes the coolest kid ever, and they wouldn’t change him for the world, so its not this horrible thing, even though it can be very hard.
Thats terrific
You are doubely blessed! What a wonderful spirit!
you’ve got quite a daughter there…
That is so awesome!!!!!!!!! Good for her!
Lovely. You’re raising ‘em right, Maria baby.
Dora is very pretty and quite talented!
Happy Birthday to you this weekend!
WOW that is so sweet I almost cried your raising a beatiful daughter there
hey girl.sorry i havent been around a lot at all lately. i hope all is going well. and i wish you a rockin fourth! hopefully we’ll have more to talk about when HOCKEY starts back up! =)
~ ponderous ~
I wanted to drop in and wish you a happy belated birthday!
That is a beautiful poem. She deserved to win. Hopefully this poem will open some people’s eyes.
Have a great week! God bless.