accomplished

He drew a picture of Miss Lindsey.

The first thing Parker Z%^$ (or Baymax, I like to call him) ever said to me was “I don’t like no body and no body gonna like me.” I got down on my knees to be eye level with this dirty, chunky, older brother of three. “Well then, I’m Miss Lindsey and it’s really going to bother you when we become best buds.”

Years went on and I worked my ass off to get that broken kiddo to trust me. I got him to smile a few times, but cracking that hard candy shell was so hard.

Until my last summer camp. In their smash journals, after 30 pages of ink black tornadoes, there was a prompt that said “Who is someone you can trust or look up to?”

He drew a picture of Miss Lindsey

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