A Butterfly Birthday

Her real name is Lorraine; her pen name's LJButterfly

 So many career changes, that's how she'd identify


She's Philly born and raised, where she and sisters loved to sing

And now those memories are what her birthday seems to bring 


At funeral home party she'd meet the love of her life

November will be 60 years they've been husband and wife


Their daughter visits Christmas and a week for Mother's Day

'Cause she lives in another state so very far away


Lorraine worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs

And she would help so many, and for them she would say prayers


Congressional Liaison, counselor fed agency

She retired after thirty years, with a new place to be


They changed their lives as both became teachers in Delaware 

In high prestigious school she taught the Biden's grandkids there


They moved to Florida when they retired a second time

This reinvention move is last, important and sublime


Lorraine came to fanstory 2020 Covid rage

As we absorb her writing it keeps flying off the page


I call her an earth angel for the kindness that she shows

Her sweet humility is why she's loved by all she knows 


We wish Lorraine the Happiest Birthday that there could be

It's sent with love from all of her FanStory family


This poem should answer anyone who ever wonders why 

Lorraine's that special woman we call LJButterfly