I don't really
know about this disease,
but I have seen
what it does to people.
When I was in my teens,
I used to babysit
a cousin of mine,
he was five years old
at that time.
Everytime I went over
to his house I
wasn't in the door
five minutes and
he would want me to
to sit down with him
and read story book
after story book.
He used to bang his
head off the wall,
but he never felt
any pain.
My little five
year old cousin,
also used to run
around the house,
like he was hyper
from having too much
sugar in his system.
He never called me
by my real name,
he used to call
me Cinny.
I felt sorry for him,
because I knew
this disease was
eating away at his brain.