Ana's relationship with her father is still hard. It's getting better but I don't think we will ever get it back. It's been real hard on him, his health has gone downhill since this all started. He now takes insulin and pills to help with his blood sugar. Before, all he needed was pills. None of us trusts anyone, no matter who they are and what they say. We just have gone though too much to even take a risk now.

Ana has nightmares about every other night, which makes it very hard to make her understand that everything is okay. She doesn't sleep alone at all. Someone like myself, my husband or her grandma has to sleep with her.

Her social development is getting better but she is still very shy and very wary of new people. The hardest thing is that she is going to have eye surgery for lazy eye soon and she will have to go to the hospital -- the same hospital she was taken to when they took her from me and her dad. We don't know how she's going to react. We're not looking forward to it. We have a lot of issues to deal with.

You can see it in her eyes when you leave. If she doesn't have me or her dad or her grandmother in sight, she freaks out. She'll say "you've left me behind!"

People need to teach their children to accept anyone, regardless of size, color or race and to remind them that those people are just like themselves. It starts with the children because some adults just don't get it or won't `fess up to it.

Anamarie and her mother, Adela, at Anamarie's 5th birthday party

Anamarie and her step-sister at Anamarie's 5th birthday party All photos of Anamarie Martinez-Regino were obtained and used with the express permission of her family.