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Poem is slightly modified from original: cji with permission)

Verse 1 ******** You know each year I fight to figure what to get even sometimes a tear my cheek gets wet.	Verse 2 ******** I mean you're so much and you've got mom today it is hard to compete with such so maybe in this poem I'll say.
Verse 3 ******** I love you so my father now who saw me and told I'd be his then you left me behind somehow then you brought me down to this.	Verse 4 ******** I've thought if I were just another boy we could go outside and play football or walk and hunt in the woods with joy I'd let you show me how to animals call.
Verse 5 ******** Even now at my age you could see me receive a mission call to serve with love you've taught me from Father to see and helped feel the spirit from above.	Verse 6 ******** But instead I'm your daughter and that to me is really neat for I've you to thank and mother too, for I can still sit on your lap, while you kid me and say I'm to big to spank.
Verse 7 ******** Yet of course you call to me to see a child into a woman I've become from your patience for I love you and this even when I was wild it was always my wish to be in compliance.	Verse 8 ******** But I want you to know right now for today even though your getting older you're still young and when you go four wheeling on your way your daughter wishes you to have a day of fun.