One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was
tucking her small boy into bed. She was about to turn off the
light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, “Mommy, will you
sleep with me tonight?”
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. “I can’t ” she
said. “I have to sleep in Daddy’s room.”
A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice: “The
big sissy.”