AA FFAATTHHEERR’’SS LLOOVVEE IISS AA CCHHIILLDD’’SS

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BUT ARE YOU FEELING BUT ARE YOU FEELING LIKE GIVING UP, LIKE GIVING UP,

MY SWEET?MY SWEET?SPEAKERS PLEASE!SPEAKERS PLEASE!

My miracle baby at six months!

…You looked just like me! But what a cutie pie!

** When Alexander Graham Bell invented the When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, in 1876, he looked for financial telephone, in 1876, he looked for financial backers for the project. President Rutheford B. backers for the project. President Rutheford B. Hayes said: “It is an extraordinary invention, but Hayes said: “It is an extraordinary invention, but who is going to use it?”who is going to use it?”

Telephone operator at eleven months!

My little genius, of course!

* * Basketball Basketball superstar, Michael superstar, Michael Jordan, was Jordan, was expelled from his expelled from his high school team.high school team.

My precious one year old!

Heaven-certified, 100% sugar and spice!

She reigns over my heart! No one can expell her!

They don’t come any finer! No siree!

I love you more than the whole huge universe, Daddy!

I love you more than the whole huge universe, my sweet!

A joyfull wonder at eighteen months!

Who could ever give you up?

** Winston Winston Churchill Churchill repeated sixth repeated sixth grade. He grade. He became prime became prime minister of minister of England at 62 England at 62 years of age, years of age, after a very hard after a very hard life. life.

At twenty months…but I love my Pediasure too!

My precious little doll!

What an angel at twenty months!

She resembled Fredrick-Michael and Melinda!

* * Albert Einstein did Albert Einstein did not speak till 4 years not speak till 4 years of age, and learned to of age, and learned to read at 7.read at 7.

His teacher graded His teacher graded him as “mentally him as “mentally clumsy". clumsy".

He was expelled from He was expelled from school, and later not school, and later not admitted to Zurich admitted to Zurich Polytechnic. Polytechnic.

My happy baby at twenty two months!

You loved the doll, and it loved you back! It had a porcelain head, hands, and feet!

One day it broke her finger, I think in her left hand! And it was saved to be repaired!

…with the French doll I sent her from Oregon!

At the petting zoo at two years!

My baby Coco, the cutest lion-tamer ever!

** In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling agency, told candidate Blue Book Modeling agency, told candidate Norman Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) : “it Norman Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) : “it would be for the best if you took a secretarial would be for the best if you took a secretarial course or looked for a good husband”.course or looked for a good husband”.

Fashion model at two and a half!

My Jacobson’s Champion Crawler Baby all “grown up”!

What a winner! You can do anything you set your mind to!

** When rejecting an English rock When rejecting an English rock group called The Beatles, a Decca group called The Beatles, a Decca Recording Company executive Recording Company executive said: “We don’t like that group”.said: “We don’t like that group”.

My beauty at three and three!

Could anybody be more adorable? No, of course not!

At four, it’s time for a formal!

My sweet southern belle!

On her fourth birthday!

I loved my sweet mama!

And my Daddy did too!

I sure did my darling, and always will!

** It took Thomas Edison 2000 attempts to It took Thomas Edison 2000 attempts to invent the electric light bulb. A young invent the electric light bulb. A young reporter asked him why so many failures. reporter asked him why so many failures. Edison replied: “I didn’t fail once. I invented Edison replied: “I didn’t fail once. I invented the light bulb. It happened to be a 2000 step the light bulb. It happened to be a 2000 step process”.process”.

My little angel at five and four!

Oh please Daddy, please, please don’t ever leave me!

I promise you my darling, I will never, never leave you!

I didn’t want to leave you, my sweet darling! It wasn’t your fault! You did no wrong! You were an angel of love! All a Daddy could ever want! It was very very painful, I know so well, I felt it too! But I had no choice! You waited and waited to see me, and I for you, against all hope, for eight more months! But I couldn’t cope! Please please forgive me!

December, 98 January, 99

Please, please forgive me!Love is patient, Love is kind,It does not envy, it does not boast,It is not proud, It is not rude,It is not self-seeking,It is not easily angered,It keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil,but rejoices with the truth.

Love always protects, always trusts,always hopes, always perseveres.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

L o v e N e v e r F a i l s.

Corinthians 13 : 4 - 8

You were all love, and the best thing that ever happened to me! I loved you so, and still do! You have been in my mind and heart, all along, since before you even were, no less than your big sisters, whom you may still remember, and who love you true!

** At 46 years of At 46 years of age, after age, after progressively progressively loosing his loosing his hearing, German hearing, German composer Ludwig composer Ludwig van Beethoven van Beethoven became became completely deaf. completely deaf. And in that state And in that state composed a good composed a good part of his works. part of his works. Including 3 Including 3 symphonies, in his symphonies, in his last 6 years. last 6 years.

The Daddy you remember!

…your Daddy Enrique, who loves you still, will never give up on you!

I took you often times to the Children’s Museum downtown! And to the two malls, to ride the penny horses, and the merry-go-round, and to buy neat things at the dollar-store! I took you to see magic “Peter Pan” at the WMU theater, and to your first movie! I took you to our playground a whole lot, where you played with “the little kids,” and built a real snow man! We had lots of fun!

I took you to the doctor, to speech therapy at KCMS, and to kinder at Kazoo! I took you to McDonald’s –I didn’t know the food was bad, and to eat “a piece of fish” at Long John Silver’s, which you loved! I took you to ride your tricycle around our apartments, on Whites Road and on Lilac Lane, and you taught me to play Hop Scotch! We watched The Fox and the Hound, and zillions of tapes! We had double fun!enriquewoll@terra.com.pe

That is why we must not think that our time has passed. That is why we must not think that our time has passed. While we are still here, While we are still here,

there will always be something to learn and much to do.there will always be something to learn and much to do.

¿DO YOU INTEND TO DESIST ¿DO YOU INTEND TO DESIST FROM ATTEMPTING SOMETHINGFROM ATTEMPTING SOMETHING??

I sent you this before I came back to you and your Mama on Xmas 97!

I went away to Miami, in search of work, in January 96, and to Lima, Perú, in May 97! I just couldn’t find any, anywhere, and I missed you so! I really really did!

I returned to you, and your wonderful loving Mama, in August 95! We lived in the beautiful Whites Road apartment you so loved! We had a friend, a big chirpy brown squirrel up on a tree!

A lovely birthday greeting for me from Aunt Rebecca in 98!

My birthday is January 25th! We spent it together in 98, but only in our hearts!

I traveled to Lima to see your big sisters, after eighteen months! They needed me too!

If I could’ve, I’d have had them visit us instead!

My precious daughter Erika, your wonderful big sister at 16!

She’s now 27, has a B.A. in Psychology from University of Oregon, and is considering becoming a nurse!

She’s Peruvian-American, like you, and grew up in Portland, Oregon! Erika and Tamara graduated from U. of O. on the same day, two years ago!

erikawoll@yahoo.com

Your Erika’s Xmas 97 letter!

She loved you then, when she was twenty! The year before, when you were three, she went with us to Disney World! She loves you still!

She’d love to write you, and someday see you, and spend time with you again!

My precious daughter Tamara, your wonderful big sister at 17!

She’s now 25, has a B.A. in Spanish from University of Oregon, and will attend Portland State University’s Urban Studies Program, a branch of Architecture!

She’s Peruvian-American, like you, and grew up in Portland, Oregon! Erika and Tamara graduated from U. of O. on the same day two years ago!

daisywoll@yahoo.com

Your Tamara’s Xmas 97 letter!

She loved you then! She loves you still! The year before, when you were three, she too went with us to Disney World!

She’d love to write you, and someday see you, and spend time with you again!

A poet laureate at five!

For my Daddy, with much love!

I love you the most too, my sweet baby, and I always will!

A love letter to my Daddy!

I know you loved me, my little Cuculí! I loved you too, and in exactly the same way! I still do!

And I kept all your presents, never fear!

Nothing else can compare!

Her first wonderful present to me at two!

…I still use them every day! You can tell!

Her resourcefulness for yet another present for Daddy at two!

You sure knew how to steal a Daddy’s heart! You have it still!

Your clever choice of ready and beautiful wrapping paper and tie!

Great Artwork for inside the package!

I put this away so carefully, I hadn’t taken a good look at it since then!

You did really well at staying within the lines!

And a pillow for dolly just in case!

You had very good fine motor skills for any baby!

It cushioned what’s coming, your wonderful present I’ll never give up!

And greater artwork still! What a present!

I think the one on the left, of course! I want that one most of all!

Which doll is cuter? It’s hard to tell! But I’m biased, I must admit!

And Presto Chango! Her wonderful packaged present to me at two!

You thought of it and wrapped it all by yourself! And then we opened it together, but I couldn’t wrap it anew as well as you!

And I still have it in my big black heavy briefcase you used to love to explore!

Her amazing mother hen with chick!

An artist already, at Nature Center Pre-School! Can you see the beaks pointing right?

You also gave me this most delicate, colorful, beautiful, work! It clearly shows a mother’s love!

Colorful curlies to make things with!

You taught me how to make clever shapes and beautiful things with these colorful curlies you gave me!

And I still have them in my briefcase with other things you used to play with!

Oh what talent runs in her blood!

It runs in your blood, on both sides! You come from artists, musicians, dancers, and singers, doctors, psychlogists,and engineers!

Hope Everlasting! A Nature Center Pre-School work of art you lovingly gave me, which I will proudly keep forever!

Treasures in my wallet!My beautiful little Chloe Rose cutout you made and colored for me! My wonderful Smiley and Cowabunga Dude stickers you gave me! They’re stuck!

The movie tickets of when we went to your first movie, a wonderful Chinese cartoon saga! The Lucky Ducks toy I bought for you, which delighted you!

A fraction of our Peruvian family!

Your loving Daddy Enrique

Your abuelo and abuela, granpa and granma

They’re waiting to meet you, and some day they will!

Lucky them, that’s what I’ll say! And happy us, that’s what we’ll feel!

Don’t give up on me my sweet!

In undying memory of you! My sweet... giving... patient... trusting... courageous... beautiful... intelligent... creative... profound... honorable... loving... innocent... and precious little daughter Chloe-Rose, my dainty and talented ballerina, my angel, worthy sister of like sisters, whom I have loved “more than the whole huge universe!”, in our times of milk and honey, amidst a cruel society, and always will!... I have not left you!... in my heart, I stand beside you! May your nights be filled with starry dreams and your days with happy memories and laughter! And may God keep you till we meet again...

May it be soon!

JUNE 16TH IS COMING UP!

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HAPPY TWELFTH BIRTHDAY MY

PRECIOUS CHLOE-ROSE!