Letter: A great person passed (Printed Dec. 25, 2009)
Editor’s note: While voting for Great Person ended Thursday, The Post would like to acknowledge a late entry in the contest.
To the editor:
Shiloh Pepin, I would like to nominate her for person of the year
She was known throughout, due to her disability. But if that is all you saw then you missed some thing special. Like any child who passes on, she is irreplaceable.
You give birth to a child with the aspirations of a joyful existence. And yet some children are born who have to fight to live, with the unknown of what kind of life will lie ahead of them. Millstones of development are measured by smiles. Beyond our tears and immeasurable anguish, life must go on. I hope that you take away from this unique child who was a gift to those who loved her. Life is not defined by the amount of days you can accrue it is what you do with those days.
When the Kellett-Pepin family had Shiloh not knowing what tomorrow may bring, or if they would even have a tomorrow, they rose to the challenge and surpassed insurmountable odds and did such an amazing job to raise such an astonishing child.
It goes to show what we need to do. If we go in to debt, let it be. If we need to fight for our children everyday any way you can try to right a wrong, any mountain you need to move to achieve it. You need too.
Every child throughout this world deserves a chance to realize their potential. For it is their right to try to reach.
For you see how she chose to make the best of what life handed her. She saw the magic each day would bring. If you take anything from her life it would be this – if you believed as Shiloh did, you would see it too.
Because of Shiloh, children who may be born with a condition akin to hers will now have additional medical specifics so another child can be helped. Her team of medical personnel, who are remarkable, gave her a chance at life. Because of their work they can teach another medical staff if they need to help some other child. When we teach someone or someone teaches you some thing, it stays forever.
If you were truly missed, you were truly loved. What better way to enter heaven. One child named Shiloh Jade Pepin with so much love inside her has gone to live God and family members in eternal paradise.
And for evermore heaven will be charmed by Shiloh.
May God bless her and those who loved her.
Tammy Nadeau- Mallory
Kennebunk
To the editor:
Shiloh Pepin, I would like to nominate her for person of the year
She was known throughout, due to her disability. But if that is all you saw then you missed some thing special. Like any child who passes on, she is irreplaceable.
You give birth to a child with the aspirations of a joyful existence. And yet some children are born who have to fight to live, with the unknown of what kind of life will lie ahead of them. Millstones of development are measured by smiles. Beyond our tears and immeasurable anguish, life must go on. I hope that you take away from this unique child who was a gift to those who loved her. Life is not defined by the amount of days you can accrue it is what you do with those days.
When the Kellett-Pepin family had Shiloh not knowing what tomorrow may bring, or if they would even have a tomorrow, they rose to the challenge and surpassed insurmountable odds and did such an amazing job to raise such an astonishing child.
It goes to show what we need to do. If we go in to debt, let it be. If we need to fight for our children everyday any way you can try to right a wrong, any mountain you need to move to achieve it. You need too.
Every child throughout this world deserves a chance to realize their potential. For it is their right to try to reach.
For you see how she chose to make the best of what life handed her. She saw the magic each day would bring. If you take anything from her life it would be this – if you believed as Shiloh did, you would see it too.
Because of Shiloh, children who may be born with a condition akin to hers will now have additional medical specifics so another child can be helped. Her team of medical personnel, who are remarkable, gave her a chance at life. Because of their work they can teach another medical staff if they need to help some other child. When we teach someone or someone teaches you some thing, it stays forever.
If you were truly missed, you were truly loved. What better way to enter heaven. One child named Shiloh Jade Pepin with so much love inside her has gone to live God and family members in eternal paradise.
And for evermore heaven will be charmed by Shiloh.
May God bless her and those who loved her.
Tammy Nadeau- Mallory
Kennebunk
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