Loved to Death

There is a little baby boy at church who is about three weeks younger than Ellie. Despite that fact, he learned to walk much earlier than she did and is now quite the expert walker. He is also an vivacious hugger. He has really taken to Ellie and loves to give her hugs. The problem is that his hugs are more like tackles. He runs at Ellie with all the force of a professional football player, spreads his arms around her in a HUGE bear hug, and knocks her flat on her back, landing on top of her as he body slams her to the floor. The most recent occurence happened in the gym before Elder's quourum. The 12-year old deacon who saw Peter's mad dash to poor unsuspecting Ellie was heard to say "She just got tackled by a linebacker..." As you might imagine, she screamed for quite sometime (you would too). It is not surprising that Ellie now seems to be pretty wary of Peter encounters. I think any future romance between them is surely never going to happen. Well, Ellie, you were bound to learn someday...love can sometimes hurt...