Orchestrated Chaos

Pushing my own buttons.

Monday, May 09, 2005

Does Holly have a problem?

For the last four weeks I have been worry by something that Holly has repeated to me a few times a day. She kept telling me that she was: "Hogie all alone." Now, Hogie is her nickname, so that wasn't what bothered me. It was the all alone part, I was churning my insides worried that she didn't feel like a bonded part of the family, like she didn't belong. Images of her crying in bed rushed through my mind. Then a few days ago, Michelle explained it to me......"Hogie all alone" wasn't referring to her as a person, it was referring to just her name. She didn't like anyone calling her any other nickname, such as "Hogie-berry", or "Jolly Holly" or "Hogum". She just wanted us to call her "Hogie. All alone." Having Holly be able to explain the punctuation would have really saved me weeks of worry.

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