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Here is a picture of Jamal when he was just a few hours old. Isn't he precious? I think so!!! Course you know how Grandmother's are!!!
Besides...He is soooo PRECIOUS!!
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
If you guessed a BOY! You guessed Right!!! We have Jamal Tommy Potts home with us now and he is the blessing and joy that makes everything in life matter!
To my Grandson Jamal whom I cherish....
These things I wish for you with Love,
Grammy, November 13, 1999
I'd really like for them to know about hand-me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches. I really would.
Jamal, I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen. It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep. I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the
covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him. When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him. I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your 'driver' to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom, Dad or Grammy. If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head. I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap tastes like. May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, fall off of your bike learning to ride it and stick your tongue on a frozen swingset on the school playground. I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope
you don't like it. And if a friend offers you drugs or a joint, I hope you realize they are not your friend. I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grammy and go fishing or watch a football game with your Poppa. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays. I hope your Mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand. I hope your Daddy teaches you how to work on a car and plays basketball with you in the driveway. These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness, but most of all the LOVE between Family. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life. Written with LOVE. Sealed with a kiss. Your Grammy Lorrie who thinks you are the most Special little Boy in the Universe!
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