She had a lot of friends, both men and women. She was the kind of person that people were just drawn to. She was just beautiful and sweet.
Of course now the fact that she said that to me that night affects me because it was her last night here on earth.
How it is looked at and interpreted comes from one's own mind, and we cannot control how people think. If you want it to be a religious symbol, then you can see it as such.
I was in denial all the way to the hospital that morning. All the while I was thinking, 'These poor parents that don't know their child is dead yet, because I know it's not my daughter' and then I opened the curtain and there she was.
I'm trying so hard not to take the things people say so personally. I only wanted this to be a positive thing and it makes me so sad that all of this is putting a dark shadow over that. I'm just a mom who lost a child that wants to do this.
When I saw an article about this Christmas Box Angel, I thought it was quite a beautiful thing to do in memory of anybody who's died.