Sweet Melissa by the Allman Brothers

I hope I explain this clearly. During the time around 9/11 my husband and I were trying to get pregnant with our 2nd child and we had some difficulty.

When the towers fell I was at work and stood around like everyone else. I prayed all day and all week that I were pregnant so that some of the good souls lost that day could be reborn with a child.

It so happens that I became pregnant sometime during the weeks following 9/11. When we were thinking of names for our daughter Melissa was on the short list. My husband was home working and had just heard the song Sweet Melissa on the radio. So we decided to name our daughter Melissa. Everytime I hear the song I think of 9/11 and our daughter. The special beautiful soul she must have inherited from someone we lost.

Lorraine Orlick