Not a simple dress

重慶 賈亞嬌

她看到的不是一個身穿簡單的連衣裙的小女孩，她看到的是一個被母愛包裹著的孩子……

“Do you like my dress?” she asked a passing stranger.“My mommy made it just for me,” she said with a tear in her eye.

“Well, I think it's very pretty, so tell me, little one, why are you crying?” answered a lady.

With a quiver in her voice the little girl answered, “After Mommy made me this dress, she had to go away.”

“Well, now,” said the lady, “with a little girl like you waiting for her, I'm sure she'll be right back.”

“No Ma'am, you don't understand,”said the child through her tears.“My daddy said she's up in heaven now with Grandfather.”

Finally, the lady realized what the child meant, and why she was crying.Kneeling down, she gently cradled the child in her arms and together they cried for the mommy that was gone.

As the lady turned to go, the little girl grabbed her sleeve, “Ma'am, can you stay just a minute? I want to show you something.”

Pointing to a spot on her dress, she said, “Right here is where my mommy kissed my dress, and here,” pointing to another spot, “and here is another kiss, and here, and here.Mommy said that she put all those kisses on my dress so that I would have her kisses for every hurt that made me cry.”

Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress.She was looking at a mother who knew that she was going away and would not be there to kiss away the hurts that she knew her daughter would get.So she took all the love she had for her beautiful little girl and put it into this dress, which her child now so proudly wore.She no longer saw a little girl in a simple dress.She saw a child wrapped in her mother's love.

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