Kindness & persistence It all began in 10th grade. I realized I had a growing crush on a boy named Brandon Baker. It was not his good looks or his sense of humor. It was his kindness to a boy with special needs. The boy would always point Brandon out in a crowd and vice versa. In an old scrapbook, I have a discipline referral for Brandon, written by the boy with special needs, for “dying Lynn’s Hair Purple.” My crush grew for several years until finally in our senior year of high school I began to plan group outings. Slowly I would weed out friends until it was just us, Brandon and me. He had not a clue that I had been telling friends not to show up. After graduation he asked me to be his girlfriend, and we are certain that God has planned for our lives to be together. Brandon is now a state trooper in Hertford County, and I will graduate from North Carolina A&T State University in the spring with a degree in Agricultural Education. There is not a diamond yet, but the older ladies at church are persistent. Lynn King, Asheboro, Randolph EMC |
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