Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

YOU AND I, AND A MULTITUDE OF OTHERS, HAVE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR THIS DAY . . . SEVEN LONG YEARS, SEVEN VERY DIFFICULT, VERY PAINFUL, AND VERY TRAGIC YEARS. NOT A DAY HAS GONE BY THAT YOU WERE NOT ON MY MIND AND IN MY SOUL, SINCE I FIRST LEARNED THE UNSPEAKABLE CRUELTY AND INDIGNITY YOUR LITTLE BODY AND INCREDIBLE SPIRIT SUFFERED THAT MIDNIGHT IN FEBRUARY OF 1993, IN A MOTEL ROOM RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY. . . UNDER THE LAME EXCUSE THAT YOU COULD NOT RECITE YOUR ABC’S. WHICH ONE OF ANY OF US IN ALL THE HUMAN RACE, CHILD OR ADULT, COULD HAVE DONE A TASK OF THIS DETAIL--OR REMEMBER ANY ORDER OF SUCH THINGS--THROUGH THE SHEER TERROR OF BEING SO DEFENSELESSLY AND CRUELLY JOLTED OUT OF SLEEP AT THE HAND OF AN ADRENALIN-PUMPED DRUNKARD? FOR ANY HUMAN—LET ALONE A BEAUTIFUL CHILD--TO DIE AT THE HAND OF A CALLOUS MURDERER, BEATING ON THE FRAGILE HEART OF AN INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL, THEN INTENTIONALLY DROWNING THAT BLAMELESS CHILD . . . SUCH RAPE OF THE MIND, SUCH UNTHINKABLE SAVAGERY, CAN NEVER BE JUSTIFIED TO ANY OF GOD’S CHILDREN. YOU, MY SWEET ANGEL, SUFFERED THE WORST ATROC