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Here is a children story that my wife wanted to read to my kids but could not because she would be moved to tears whenever she starts reading it...

The pictures are not available here so please use your imagination :)

LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch

A mother held her new baby
and very slowly rocked him back and forth.
And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The baby grew.
He grew until he was 2 years old
and he ran all around the house.
He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator.
He took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet.
Sometimes his mother would say, " this kid is driving me crazy!"

But at night time, when that 2 years old was quiet,
she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor,
looked up over the side of his bed;
and if he was really asleep, she will picked him up
and very slowly rocked him back and forth.
And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The little boy grew.
He grew until he was 9 years old
and he never wanted to come home for dinner.
He never wanted to take a bath,
and when his grandma visited he always said bad words.
Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!

But at night time, when that 9 years old was quiet,
she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor,
looked up over the side of his bed;
and if he was really asleep, she will picked him up
and very slowly rocked him back and forth.
And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The boy grew.
He grew until he was a teenager
and he had strange friends.
He wore strange clothes and listened to strange music.
Sometimes his mother felt like she was in a zoo!

But at night time, when that teenager was quiet,
she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor,
looked up over the side of his bed;
and if he was really asleep, she will picked up that great big boy
and very slowly rocked him back and forth.
And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

That teenager grew.
He grew up until he was a grown-up man.
He left home and got a house across the town.

But sometimes on dark nights,
the mother got into her car and drove across town.
If all the lights in her son's house were out,
she opened his bedroom window, crawled across the floor,
looked up over the side of his bed;
and if that great man was really asleep, she will picked him up
and very slowly rocked him back and forth.
And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

Well, that mother she got older.
One day she called up her son and said,
"You'd better come and see me because
I'm very old and sick."
So her son came to see her.
When he came in the door she tried to sing that song. she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always...

But she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick.

The son went to his mother.
He picked her up and rocked her back and forth.
And he sang this song:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my Mommy you'll be.

When the son came home that night,
he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs.

Then he went into the room where his newborn daughter was sleeping.
He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth.
And while he held her, he sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.