My birthday is 10 days away, on the 29th. And who knows, friends may ask me for what I want when my birthday rolls around. I did a similar list for Christmas last year.

He agreed that our dad would probably not notice a couple of coins missing. It took us all day and we slept that night craving sweets. I hated the day that she needed my hands to put my dads belongings in boxes. She needed Helens that day too as hers were not working at all anymore. I felt pride to be chosen, the heavy burden at first masked by my inflated ego. Humbled by a country that acknowledged the responsibility to document a conflict for those at home and for genera.