When Kyle was 4 years  old I used to take him home with me and he would go to work with me. I was a physical education teacher so he hung out in the gym playing with my class. His favorite thing was playing soccer. When we went home he would fall asleep under the kitchen table. Kyle had curly blond hair that was long and curled all over. When people would see him they would say it’s she pretty. He would say. I’m not a GIRL!!!! Three weekends in a row he ask me to take him to get a hair cut.  I said your mom will kill me He looked at me with that beautiful smile of his and said. Please Aunt Toni I don’t  want to be called a girl any more!! I’m a boy and I want people to know it (with a little tear running down his check)so I said  If we do this you will be a young man. And I will expect you to act like a young man. He said yes Mame. He put his little hand in mine  and he said the barber shop is right this way let me take you there   The minute we walked into the shop every eye in the room was looking at me I felt like the world’s  worst sister. Kyle climbed up and sat in that barber chair just like a young man and said Frank I want a buzz cut and don’t you leave any curls in my hair because I’m tired of being called a little girl. Frank looked over at me snd said are you sure and Kyle looked up at Frank and that little tear rolled down his cheek and I said buzz it Frank.  I knew when  I saw all those curls laying on that floor that I was going to be in big trouble  but the look on his face after he got down from the barber chair and looked in the mirror and said I’m a boy now that look was priceless and  of course I had to cry. He looked up at me and  said now don’t you worry Aunt Toni I said I would take care of you   Remember I am  your little man and he looked up at me with that sneaky smile and said I got an idea!!

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Genairo Kyle Lopez

May 12, 1983 – August 24, 2021

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