You’ve never sung the words to your favorite Elmo song, and when you clung to me last night over that terrible storm,you never spoke a word of what tormented you,one so young.

Although autism holds back your speech love is beaming in your smile. How can a child with so much love to give be silent? I have cried myself to happy tears for being the one chosen to be your "ma".

So Billy each night you awake from a storm or just to be consoled, you will find rest in your mommys arms. Though you do not speak I will always know your questions because the answers are here in my heart. I love you, Always.

By Jennifer Petty

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Okay, so that was the beginning... We have come so far since then. Billy continues to thrive and be successful in school. He wants to be a pilot, a train conductor, and a truck driver when he grows up! And they said he'd never speak! He’s got dreams of his own now.... My dreams have come true because of that.

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