9.
I was having lunch at a restaurant when a pretty girl walked in and sat down at a table waiting for her friend. It didn’t
long before I saw she was trying to stay hidden from other people’s stares and my
sank.
You could see her hair was
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and, at such a young age, she was receiving chemo (化疗). I ached for her, imagining what it must be like to
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this. I needed to get across a
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of hope to this girl. But
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?
Then it hit me! I called over her waitress and explained that I wanted to buy the girl and her friend’s 47_______ but that she couldn’t tell her it was me. I
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her a note to give to the girl. The note
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as follows:
“Someone today thought you were beautiful, someone today thought your eyes
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the world, someone today cared and wanted you to know this.
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the rest of your day, pretty young lady.”
About 15 minutes later the young girl asked for her
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. As she was told it was paid for, she looked
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and asked who and why. The waitress
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handed her the note and informed her that the gentleman who had done it had left, so as to keep me secret.
I watched as she
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read the note. Tears welled up in her eyes, for only a moment, and then came the smile! A huge, beautiful,
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smile! She lit up the room and then sat up straight, not caring who saw her. Her
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also smiled, not for what was done but
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her friend was feeling beautiful again.
It’s not how we look or what we have,
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is it how much money we can earn. It’s all about how much we care and what we do,
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it’s making someone feel pretty only for a moment.
Yes, lunch cost only a few dollars but you see the wonderful part, the magic was free.