The little baby girl, dressed in a white sleeveless top, a white little shorts, flashing her bright innocent smile and her tiny little hands reaching out excitedly, sitting in between her proud parents. She's their little angel sent from heaven. She's their pride, their first-born, their hope, who shall realize the dream they never had a chance to make come true. They took care of her with much love and commitment, giving her the best they could provide. Buying her the most expensive dresses they can afford even if it meant no new clothes for them. Always providing her with the best quality healthy food they can find even when it comes to junkies. No chick-a-dees for her, it's bad for her. She must have good quality junkies. She is their precious little girl after all. She loves to snuggle close to her mommy and daddy especially daddy and make them play with her. She loves to sleep between them in the middle of the night. That way she feels safe and away from the scary monsters that in reality only lurks around in nightmare.

But the girl was not strong enough. She's always sick, always down with high fever and stomach flu. That makes mommy and daddy worry all the time. Every time they see their little baby girl lying frailly on her bed, it pains them so much tears well up in their eyes. When the girl was crying with pain, they wish they could take the pain onto themselves and make hers go away. They take turn to stay up at night to make sure little baby girl is fine and gets her medicine on time and pray for her to get better soon. Mommy and daddy always check on her and tug her in her blankie so she doesn't get a cold.

They love her so much they bring her along wherever they go. Although they were not well-off, they try to save up as much as they could of their meager income just so they can bring her out of country on a vacation. Furthest they've gone is to Bangkok. It was a bumpy 12 hours long train ride. Daddy had to sleep on the upper bunk where his head was found bruised the next morning from the endless bumping on the train wall. Nevertheless it was a very happy and memorable trip for the 3 of them.

From all the love and care they gave her, she grows really fast, day after day, years after years. Soon she's grown into a strong active teenage girl. Now she pains them more. Not because she's ill again but because she has transform into a little monster from her little angel form. Now she thinks their love is a prison, their words an awful song, their advices full of bullshits and their everything are just painstakingly annoying. She resent everything they say or do. She goes against everything that they say or warn. She secretly skip school, secretly goes to party and she secretly dates a guy and secretly bring him to her house when they are not around. Secretly had her first kiss with her first boyfriend and secretly break it off without them knowing he ever existed. She threatened them by running away from home. Cause so much pain that her father cried out loud for the first time in fear of losing her daughter forever. That was the first time she made him cried so hard.

Then a few years later, despite all her spitefulness and playfulness she manage to graduate from high school and was accepted into the national University which had her parents brimming with pride every time they tell someone about it. But those grad school years was not smooth sailing. She left a good boy for some jackass whom she thought was an angel at the time. This time around she caused her mommy and daddy to cry real hard for the second time because her stupid decisions nearly caused her life following the worse breakup ever in her life. She refused to eat, to go out, she just stays at home and do nothing all the time. Whenever they look into her eyes, the lights grew dimmer and dimmer. She no longer cry, she no longer speak, she just sits and stare. The sight of her sitting lifelessly staring into blank space brought a tremendous pain and sadness in their heart. They drop everything at hand, rushed over to hug her, to tell her that everything is going to be alright, that no matter what happen they will always be the one who will support her and love her and care for her. Even when everyone has left her, they will not, for her, they will always be around. That little gesture finally brought tears into her eyes again. They were gushing out freely. A sense of warmth and hope embraced her and once again she can feel safe cause no matter what, she knows her family will always be there to back her up. With their support, she managed to go back to school and graduate remarkably.

Now the girl is a grown woman. She has a lot to thank her wonderful parents for. For giving her a wonderful life, for teaching her life lessons she'll never get to learn elsewhere, for teaching her to love, to respect and to care for people all around. Most of all she wants to thank her mommy and daddy for loving her all her life and for not giving up on her when she was clearly a pain in the ass. It is now time for her to move on into a new chapter of her life, to leave home, to travel thousands of miles away to be with her one true love, to start her own family and to someday pass down to her children what her great parents had taught her. Here she sits with tears brimming in her eyes looking into the picture of the little baby girl with her white sleeveless top and white shorts sitting in between her mommy and daddy who were smiling proudly into the camera. She will truly miss them, miss all those wonderful years that they had together. She will miss talking to them, miss them nagging her all the time, miss arguing with them and most of all she simply miss spending time with them. What more can she ask, they were the most wonderful gift that is bestow on her.

"Daddy, mommy, thanks for everything you've given me. Sorry for all the pain I've caused you time after time and thank you for forgiving me each and every time. I love you very much and I will always miss you both."