Most people acknowledge May 5th as Cinco de Mayo. But our family acknowledges this day as Savannah’s birthday.
She would be 13 today.
In the Lee household, the 13th birthday is a BIG deal. It is the day that signifies a coming of age- when a child makes those first wobbly steps into young adulthood.
We gather round our closest friends and family members. We eat and drink, share stories and laugh.
We read scripture, and bless, and pray.
And we present the celebrated one with their purity ring, after weeks of discussion revolving around “the talk.”
But I don’t get to do any of this with her. Instead I am reduced to merely imagine what this day would have brought.
Would she have come bounding into our bedroom in the early morning, with excitement written all over her face?
Would she raffle off her desired wish-list to attentive ears?
Who would her closest friends be?
Who would SHE be?
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