Once upon a time she turned 8.

Her name is Esther and she is a rare soul. True Spanish and Latino character and features! And what a joy to be around her..

"Heaven lies around us in our infancy.” says William Golding. I hope she can keep heaven in her life as years go by.

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”― George R.R. Martin

Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.

“Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.” Robert Charles Wilson