This is Alyssa. She is the most amazing little girl, and she happens to be my niece. Today we were sitting together, putting together a puzzle, and she looks down and sees a burn that I had on my hand. She looks at it and cries, "Oh, what happened!" I explain to her that it was from an oven. And then I show her my knee. I say, "Look I have another ouey". My niece proceeds to remove the bandaid from the cut on her arm, and put it on my knee to cover my scrape. I thought to myself, "Now that is love." Kids love without thinking, and without needing to. I wish I could go back to that.
Alyssa gives me great joy. She lets me hold her, and she rests her head on my shoulder. Her parents wonder if she has ADHD, so it is really quite rare that she does that for anyone. When I left her house today, she puckered her lips, and gave me a chocolatey kiss, because she was eating a brownie. And it was wonderful.