He had a little plaque on the wall up there with a poem that always broke my heart. It’s titled “Why God Made Little Girls”: God made the world with its towering trees Majestic mountains and restless seas Then paused, and said, “It needs one more thing, Someone to laugh and dance and sing To walk in the woods and gather flowers, To commune with nature in the quiet hours.” So God made little girls, With laughing eyes and bouncing curls, With joyful hearts and infectious smiles Enchanting ways and feminine wiles And when He’d completed the task He’d begun, He was pleased and proud of the job
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