One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was
tucking her small boy into bed. She was about to turn off the
light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you
sleep with me tonight?" The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring
hug. "I can't dear", she said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."
A long silence was broken at last by a shaken little voice saying,
"The big sissy."