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Prologue

November 16, 1985

"Push."

"I am pushing." Screamed the women in labor.

"We know you are Cathy, but you need to push a little harder if you want the baby out."

"Can it Jonathan, this hurts!" After 13 hours of labor, Catherine finally birthed a beautiful baby girl. She was 6lbs, 10 ounces and 20 inches long.

"Congratulations. You have a new daughter. Mr. Bryant, would you like to cut the umbilical cord?" asked the doctor.

"Yes I would." Answered a stunned Jonathan. "10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 arms, legs, ears and eyes." He counted off.

"Caleb's going to be upset. He had his heart set on having a little baby brother."

"He'll come around to having a sister. She's beautiful Cathy. What should we name her?"

"Julianne Paige."

"That sounds like a perfect name. We can call her our little Jewel." Both parents smiled and cooed over the newest edition to the Bryant family. Soon enough Julianne was whisked away to the nursery to be checked over again and cleaned up properly, while the doctor in the labor room finished cleaning and taking care of Catherine.

"I'm going to make the calls to the family. I'll see you once you get into your room. I love you." Said Jonathan.

"Me too." Jonathan walked out to the waiting room and called his parents and brothers. They were all on the road driving down to North Carolina from Washington D.C. Catherine's parents were walking off the elevator with Caleb just as Jon was ending his last phone call.

"We have a daughter. She is 6 lbs, 10 ounces and 20 inches long. All 10 fingers and toes are accounted for as well." Jon told his in-laws.

"What did you and Catherine decide to name her?" asked Lauren, Catherine's mother.

"We decided on Julianne Paige."

"You mean I was given a baby sister instead of a baby brother?" whined six-year-old Caleb. "How can I teach a girl to play catch with me Daddy?"

"I'm sure you can still teach Julianne to play catch. She might grow up to like sports, just like you do." Assured Jon.

"Can't we trade her in?"

"Caleb, you might like having a little sister. Why don't you give it a chance to grow on you for a while before you want to really give your sister away?" said Michael, Catherine's father.

"If I have to. Can I call Shannon from school? He's going to be bummed that I have a baby sister and not brother too."

"Yes you can call him. Let me get a quarter and dial the number for you." Jon answered moving towards the pay phone.

November 26, 1985
Thanksgiving Day

"Did you want to hold her Shannon?" Catherine asked the young boy who was staring at the baby in her arms.

"Can I really?" he asked.

"Sure. Sit on the couch like Caleb was and hold out your arms." Shannon Moore did as he was told and within minutes he was holding Julianne while all the parents were talking around the living room waiting to eat Thanksgiving dinner. Shannon and his family were new to the neighborhood, but he already made friends with Caleb, Jeff and Matt Hardy. His family lived right next door to Caleb, so he always had someone to play with after school who was the same age as him. Not listening to the adult conversation taking place around him, Shannon said out loud, "I wish I had a baby brother or sister. Mom, Can I keep Julianne? Caleb doesn't want her for a sister."

"I'm sure Ms. Cathy and Mr. Jon want to keep her though Shannon." She answered.

"Do you really want her? Mommy would take care of her and I would get to help." He asked Cathy.

Cathy smiled at the young boy. "I'm positive that I want to keep her. But I'll make a deal with you."

"Okay."

"You can come over to our house anytime you want to and help with Julianne. She can be your adopted little sister."

"I don't know what dopted means, but I like the part of being a brother."

"Being a big brother means that you would have to stick up for Julie when other people are being mean to her, and you have to teach her how to do really cool kid things."

"Like how to ride a bike and climb trees?" he asked.

"Yep." Answered Catherine.

"I can do that. I'll always protect her." Shannon vowed. All the parents smiled at him. "Things only a child would say." They laughed. None of them had no idea just how seriously Shannon would take that promise for the rest of his life.