(WFLA/CNN Newsource) – A 7-year-old’s touching message to her parents has taken Facebook by storm.

Shelley Harrison Reed posted a photo of her daughter Vanessa with the worlds “love mom and dad” written on her arm in purple marker.

She already knew from her 10-year-old son their Delaware school had been under lockdown during a portion of the day because of a bomb threat.

When Harrison noticed the strange message on Vanessa’s arm, she asked what it meant.

The second grader explained she wrote it to let her parents know she loved them in case she was killed.

Reed wrote they both started to cry as she watched a piece of her daughter’s innocence “get stolen away.” 

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