Editor's Note: The original
version of this blog was submitted for publication in Softball Magazine. It is reprinted here today in honor of
Northwestern's Senior Weekend, which begins at 2 p.m. CT Friday, May 11, 2012, against Illinois at Sharon J. Drysdale Field. The three member senior class will be honored prior to Saturday's 1 p.m. CT series finale.
As
soon as Adrienne Monka was old enough to attend preschool, her mother excitedly
dressed her up with a bow in her hair and sent her off.
At the end of the day, when she arrived to pick her daughter up, Elba Monka found that her preciously placed bow was gone from Adrienne's head and instead, lay in her cubby. When the preschooler explained that it had simply fallen off, her mother thought nothing of it and sent her back the next day with the bow firmly fastened atop her head. Come pick-up time, however, it was again found lying lonely in the cubby.
