I Love You

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​This old gal…

Has a tote full of bags…not the 40 totebag bags…but gift bags…paper…gift bags…

Organized by size…holiday…purpose…nestled around a box of ribbon…colored tissue paper…a variety of bows…

A useful tote…to be sure…but also…a treasure chest…for bags…from the past…

Gift bags…created by little hands…that held gifts…created…by little hands…at school…for that mother of theirs…

Don’t know why mama me saved them…but she’s glad she did…twenty years later…those drawings…tell a story…

Of sweet times…little girl times…times when a bubble butterfly and a To Mom-I love you…was the most precious gift of all…

Just like…if we’re being honest here…it still is…today…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…