Dear Hannah,

I wish there were some way that you could understand that when I push or encourage or insist that you behave in a respectful way to all people, it is so you can learn the valuable lessons waiting within that push or encouragement or insistent conversation. YOU! are an amazing young woman and you have a strong sense of what is right and good and fair and just....those strong beliefs apply even when you are being asked to do something you may not want to do by a teacher or Owen or myself or your father or whoever else may be responsible or accountable for you....I expect you to do the right thing because I know that you are able to and I also know that you want to and I also know that you know that God wants you to and I know that is important to you. I also know that was a run on sentence. Read your quote on the chalkboard that you wrote out for us okay!!!! I love you. xoxoxo mom