Right
She would lie down in the blizzard snow
to make snow angels-
her arms stretched wide-
her legs spread.
She walked up to the robber
and touched his gun
and said 'don't.'
She stopped a bar fight
by getting up on the bar
whispering 'stop.'
She made the three point shot
at the half-time 3-point contest.
Still cries in movies;
has all of her stuffed animals
and her blanket from childhood.
Knows the names of every boy-band
and spent the summer reading
Webster's Unabridged International Dictionary.
Learned Arabic from her roommate-
one semester-they still talk..
She is not pretty,
but she is funny.
She is not particularly sexy-
more tom-boyish.
Her secret:
She genuinely likes people
and they reciprocate.
She has a ferret for a pet.
She and her mother sometimes
dress alike.
Golfs with her Dad every month.
Never forgets a face;
remembers most names.
Sings badly;
no terribly;
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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