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Aalyiah

To Aalyiah's Killer

Do you wake up during the night with tears soaking your pillow?    I do.

Do you watch little girls playing in the schoolyard and think Aalyiah will never have the opportunity to play here?    I do.

Do you look at little children in your family and think that you could have murdered them just as easily as you did Lena and Lex's little one?     I do.

Do you ever regret anything you did that fateful day?    I do.

I will never get to hear my granddaughter's laughter or tears. I will never get to see Aalyiah play with her brothers.

I will miss her becoming totally beautiful and loving. You took that away from me.

But Aalyiah was brave and beautiful. While the helicopter waited to take Lena and Aalyiah to the hospital and the paramedics worked to cut her out of that crumpled wreakage, Aalyiah saved her mother's life - so at least my Grandchildren would have their mother. Aalyiah looked like her mother and her brothers. She was a beauty.

Do you ever think that my son had to carry that little coffin with Aalyiah's little body to her final resting place while her mother was in hospital fighting for her life through seven operations?     I do.

I believe you need to pay for this crime which you committed. I hope you atone for the pain you have inflicted on the world. I hope that you can learn and give and help others who have been victims of killers like you. I pray for you to become a man and face the consequences of your actions. I think of you often and pity you. Think of me with empty arms and heartache.

A loving and grieving grandmother,

Alice Roelofs, PhD, LMSW