She will continue to enjoy splashing in puddles

Cherie Morgan and her husband

“When I was very young, we did an art contest at school. The theme was ‘What Makes Me Smile.’

“I had a poster board and Crayola crayons, and I sat at our family’s kitchen table to color my masterpiece.

“It was me wearing a yellow raincoat, hat and boots — standing in the rain puddles under a rainbow with one leg pink and the other leg flesh color because, well, I was about 7 at the time.

“We had that poster matted and framed, and it hung over my bed until I left my parents’ house. It continued to hang in that room until the house was sold two years ago.

“I will not allow Harvey and its aftermath to take away from me a lifetime’s joy of splashing in the puddles, listening to the sound of rain on the rooftops and spotting a rainbow.”

— Cherie Morgan