December 13, 2008, on Saturday

Dear Girasol Amarillo:

Greetings and hello!  I thank God for allowing me to receive a special Christmas present early.  I was allowed to go back home to live with my birth mother Bertica.  I expressed my feelings and concerns, because I felt it was time to be with her and my two sisters again.  I really missed Alexis and Aida, and I know they missed me, because we really haven't been together that long because of Aida's age and because of Alexis being nine years younger than me.  Mis hermanas are the best sisters I've ever had although I do appreciate Isabel and Florencia (Flora) Villanueva being a part of my family even though they are not blood-related.  I must admit--I enjoyed Michelle Villanueva when she was in her good moods, and that didn't happen too often.  Gladis Lozano wasn't the best person to live with at times, but I loved her, too, despite the comments she made about autism.  I just pray that she changes, because she needs to be a positive influence for Isabel.  I really mean it.  I also thank Jose Alexander Villanueva for being the best adopted father he could be and for being so kind and sticking up for me when Gladis and Michelle decided to gang up on me.

I came home to mi mami and her new boyfriend Cristiano, who is 11 years older than she (he's 50), and he's a mixture of Puerto Rican and Portuguese.  Nice dark chocolate brown hair and beautiful skin just like Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, the good-looking soccer player who plays for Portugal and Manchester United.  (He's one of my favorites, and he's very good-looking!)  He has a daughter named Cristiana, and she's 2 years younger than me (eighteen years old).  She goes to Bella Rosa University with me, and she's a Fashion Design major just like me!  Alexis, Aida, and I like both Cristiano and Cristiana.  I'm glad Mama found someone new to forget about my birth father Robert.  Even though he is my father, he will NOT change his ways, especially his jealousy towards Mama, and that's not good at all. BTW, Cristiano's last name is Fernandes (his mother is Puerto Rican, and his father is Portuguese), and Cristiana's last name is Martinez (she's Puerto Rican, Portuguese, and Mexican; her mother, Onelia, is Mexican.  Cristiano and Onelia never married).

I thank God for giving me another day of life.  To breathe.  To meditate.  To understand that His presence fills me inside.  Even though I am a 20-year-old with autism, autism does not have me, and I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me (Philippians 4:13 in the Bible).

God bless!

Jacqueline Aida Heinrich Aguirre (not Jacqueline Aida Villanueva Lozano) :-)

P.S.: By the way, my Venezuelan boyfriend Antonio Javier Ruiz Zuniga is going to spend Christmas with my family.  Mama and Cristiano said it was okay.  Antonio is 24 years old.  Dark brown curly hair that is long to his shoulders, and he is very cute!  We've been together for four years.  What a blessing!