When Life Gives You Lemons

"She is the most amazing thing to happen to us..."
                                       "You sure are lucky to have such a sweet child..."
                                                                          "She is the most gorgeous baby I've ever seen..."
She came with a head of dark hair. She came with hazel eyes that hardly cried. She came pure and perfect.

Then she grew. 

"She is the most amazing thing to happen to us..."

                                      "You won't have her for much longer."

                                                                           "This type of cancer is extremely rare."

She smiled through the pain. The bruises covered her, but they didn't define her. No, her smile, her light defined her. That happy little girl fought and she fought hard, though she didn't even know she was fighting. To her it was just life. 

Then she was cured.

She was shy. She hardly made friends.
                         Yet she was truly, incredibly happy for a long while.
She wasn't one to look at clothing, beauty, or popularity as an indication of success or the ability to love.
                                                                              She wasn't society's robot.
Video games with her brothers intrigued her. Frisbee, long-boarding, singing. She was diverse in her talents...                          
                                    but no one knew that.
No one knows she can sing. No one knows she is incredibly funny, or that she will fight to keep you.
                             She'll fight for you like she fought for herself.
                                                                                                   She knows the value of life.

But no one knows that because she's shy. 

She's lived a lifetime of pain and still fights through it. 

She was cured of Leukemia. 

But what if she hadn't been.