Light Within

Balloons will glow for several days for our sweet Lena. Tomorrow she will be twenty.
She understands birthdays.
When she was around six, after being forgotten at someone else's party, she said,
"I want a piece of cake."
It was late in the evening; everything was all cleaned up, but that didn't matter.
She didn't speak often. This was one of the only times she verbalized what she wanted.
We immediately gave her a big piece of cake.
Those words were some of her last before autism completely stole her voice.
Tomorrow, we will be sure to give her as much cake as she will eat.