One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small boy into bed.
She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice,
“Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?”
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug.
“I can’t dear,” she said.
“I have to sleep in Daddy’s room.”
A long silence was broken at last by a shaken little voice saying,
“The big sissy.”