40 WEEKS I PLANNED, LOVED, AND CREATED A DREAM WORLD, YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRINCESS AND STAND TALL AND PROUD. IN ONE MINUTE THOSE PLANS CHANGED, OR SO I THOUGHT; CHANGED BY ONE TINY CHROMOSOME, ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVED.

I CRIED, FELT SORRY,AND WONDERED WHY AND WHAT I HAD DONE WRONG. ONLY YOU OPENED YOUR EYES AND CRIED A TINY WONDERFUL CRY. YOU OPENED MY EYES TO A WHOLE NEW WORLD,ONE THAT WITHOUT YOU I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN.

THAT WORLD IS STRANGE AND SCARY, YET WONDERFULLY APPEALING. BECAUSE OF THAT ONE CHROMOSOME I LEARNED TO BE KINDER,HAPPIER, AND MORE IN LOVE.

I KNOW I STILL HAVE A PRINCESS, NOT THE ONE I THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE. BETTER THAN THAT, I HAVE A ONE IN A MILLION BEAUTY WHO IS SPECIAL IN HER OWN RIGHT. A SPECIAL BEAUTY THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE HER MOMMY AND WAS SENT FROM GOD ABOVE. SO THANK YOU GOD, FOR MY VERY WONDERFUL LITTLE CASSIE.

WRITTEN BY TAMMY SHOREY WHEN CASSIE WAS ONE MONTH OLD. DEC. 1997