My Aunt FeFe

Everyone has that family member that is their personal cheerleader. My aunt Sophia Elaine Rogers Polk is mine. For as long as I can remember, she has always been on my team.
She was the one that took me to see my first movie. It was the movie Annie back in 1982.
She confessed to me years later that the real reason that she came to get me is because she really wanted to see it herself and she needed a kid to go with her so she would not feel out of place.
I forgave her, because I did that same thing to another family member when I wanted to see The Lion King back in 1994.
One of the real reasons why I love her so much is because she really stepped up to the plate for me when I entered my freshman year of college at the University of Central Arkansas.
During the first week of college, I called her up to see if she had any extra bed linen because I needed some for the twin mattress in my door room. She got so excited that she went out and bought me a brand new set. She told me years later that the reason that she had done so is because out of all of the grandchildren in our family, she had suspected that I would be the one to go off to college.
She said that if you really pay close attention to children when they are younger, you can pretty much tell how they are going to turn out to be. She told me that when I was younger, while the other kids went outside to play that I would spend hours at a time looking through the books that my grandmother had on her bookcase. I vaguely remember doing that.  I am glad that she remembered those special moments.
The last reason that I love her so much is because she gave the task of helping her name her only child. Ikina Shanea Kanu is her name. 
I was also present in the delivery room when her child was born in 1998.
She told the doctors that she wanted me to be there because might not ever have kids.
That was nearly 20 years ago. To this day, I still tell her that she may have cursed me by saying that.
Overall, I could not ask for a better supporter/ family ally. I will always be grateful to her for her love and support throughout the years of my young adult life.