let it be you

my niece asked me to check her essay.  all i did was remove redundancies and correct some tenses.  everything else i left as is:  the vocabulary, the flow, the style, the tone.  i wanted the text to remain 'her,' not become 'me.'

then she told me she actually asked her dad to check it earlier.  she says all he did was put spaces.

oh, haha...  maybe he, too, was just giving her space to be herself...  ; )