Hugs To You

More from our Denver years. You were exceptionally loving, overwhelmingly affectionate. Often at night, even though you were a bitty toddler, you would wrap your arms tightly around my neck after I finished your bedtime story and pull me down on your pillow and just SQUEEEEEZZZE while you told me you loved me. How often did I nearly pass out? Sometimes I could no longer breathe, such an unlikely boa constrictor! Gave literal impact to the "I love you to death" declaration...even though you stopped with "I love you so much!", I wondered if sometimes that would be my last gasp.