IN THIS STORY OF ONE LITTLE GIRL-AS RARE AND BEAUTIFUL,IN HER WAY,AS A BLUE ROSE-LIES A MESSAGE OF LOVE FOR US ALL

Jenny is a little girl-a lovely little girl.
She has brown eyes and dark brown hair.
If her hair fails into her eyes she brushes it away.
But her hand does not go straight to her forehead.
Instead,it curves around like a flower first opening its petals.
Then she brushes her hair out of her eyes.
You see,Jenny is different.
Different?
Yes,different from most other little girls.
But surely all people do not have to be alike,
think a like,
act alike,
or look alike.
To me,JENNY IS LIKE A BLUE ROSE
A BLUE ROSE?
Have you ever seen a blue rose?
There are white roses and pink roses and yellow roses
and of course lots of red roses
But BLUE?
Every gardener would love to raisea blue rose.
People would come from far away to see it.
It would be rare and different and beautiful.
Jenny is different too,
And so,in a way she is like a blue rose.
When Jenny came first came home from the hospital
-a pink baby,all cuddly and round-she cried often.
She cried more than most babies.
WHY?
Well perhaps
She saw different shadows that frightened her.
Perhaps she heard sounds that were strange to her.
When she was older,Jenny always stayed close to her mother
and held on her tightly.
You know when a kitten loses its tail
it is said to gain sharper ears.
It is true that a tail helps a kitten run faster.
But a kitten without a tail hear better and can detect approaching
footsteps long before other kittens do.
Some people donot know about such a kitten's fine ears,
they only see the lack of a tail.
Some children are cruel and stare and taunt;
The kitten has no tail
The kitten has no tail
Sometimes,Jenny would run up to her mother
and clutch her tightly,
for no apparent
reason at all.
At least,for none that we could see.
And so we came to understand that
Jenny's world was a little different,
unknown to us,in some ways.
We began to think that
she was ina world in which we might not feel
completely at home.
To go there might ,in a way be like going
ANOTHER PLANET.