I found an old old diary

That my father's mother kept,

And in an entry dated 

September twenty-second,

Nineteen hundred and fourteen,

She told about her birthday trip

Across the Hudson on a ferry

From Leonia, New Jersey to New York.

She and her mother spent the day

Seeing the sites of New York City,

And when they returned home,

They ate a delicious birthday cake

Her mother had baked for her,

And she opened one present:

A baby blue ribbon for her long black hair.

She had turned twelve that very day.

-jenn