"One night in going through some papers"I continued,"I came across the long forgotten picture.This is it.It brought up old memories and I started aimlessly to read one of the note behind the picture.Do you know it is strange how things happen;how in just a flashing moment of time everything become different,"I said feelingly.
She started to sympathize but I interjected,
"They weren't friends,they're family."
Years have passed since that day,but the memories and feelings stayed the same.
"As I read,a sentence leaped up at me,and it did alot of difference back then."
"What was that wonderful sentence?I wanted to know,"she asked in astonishment.
I quoted it slowly,"Don't always look down at yourself cz there's alot of smartness in you and bring it out to show the world who you are."
Her voice was surprisingly clear and her arms stretched out as happily as when she had welcome me,
"Now I know why you mentioned them as your family."
She turned and looked at me with tears and showed a gesture to see her father lying there in the coffin.The pain was unbearable and I can't utter a word, that's when I realized how much they meant for me.
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