I was there the moment she was born and also the moment she passed away (something I am not able to share). I remember this beautiful baby that I carried around & sang to which continued until she could stand on my feet and dance with me. I remember the cute little doll running through my parking lot in her diaper & red tennis shoes wearing only those two items. We went to the zoo on the first date I had with my husband. She loved "our first date" as she called it. She proudly rode on his shoulders wearing his big felt Stetson hat. She called him "that man" and continued to until the day we married. She ran up to the altar,jumped in his arms and loudly said "Hooray, Now I can call you Grandpa". When I bought my dog Barney she asked if I had bought her a puppy. I had to tell her we could share him. When naming him took all night, we gave up. The very next day she put her little 3yr.old hands on her hips & said "His name's Barney, that's it , no more names". It stuck. That was before Dave & I married. Later while visiting, she yelled at Grandpa not to come by the window to see the naked hookers across the street. Then proceeded to inform us what a hooker was. She was seven ! My husband was as stunned as I was ! We had a great time one Christmas vacation when she had all her friends from our church call their parents to say that they could stay a couple more days--then she told us. I remember all the hours /days we spent making Christmas cookies. Later during a sad time in her life she wrote me a story about it probably thinking about happier times as I now must do. She was looking at my doll collection and telling me "Soon you will have a real baby to hold". That never happened. I wear a rose inside a teardrop necklace as a memorial which will go to my daughter when I'm gone. It says it all about my feelings on her passing. The rose is the symbol of undying love. When I get to heaven I want to see her at the gate to greet me then & only then will I have peace at her passing.