Chan Ly Trinh - Organ Donor
My Dearest,Ut, My Dearest, I am thankful to God because he has given you to me, but sometimes I think that Providence is so unfair. Why is that a beautiful, dutiful, and well-behaved young girl could not have a simple life like others? When you were a little young girl, I often said, "I will never trade you with whatever treasures are in this world." You also said to everyone that living with me was a pleasurable experience. Why did you leave me? Don't you think that I will be unhappy because of your absence? Your silhouette is seen everywhere. For many nights I dreamed I saw you come back. That experience helped relieve my grief for weeks. Now that your brother and sisters are grown up and I have retired from work, your Dad will retire in four more years. Your Dad and I will take your ashes back to our father country. I will let you stay in our homeland, and I will plant blueberries around your tomb. A coconut tree will be planted nearby to give shade to you. Then in the evenings, your Dad and I will be sitting under the shadow of the coconut tree, looking at the bluberry flowers and remembering you. When eating blueberries, I remember you showed your tongue dyed with the blue color of the berries and laughed when you noticed my astonishment when I saw your tongue. My remembrance of you will last long, and I do not know when it will end, and I do not know when I will stop shedding tears when I think of you. Time goes by without announcement. In ten more years I will get older, and my hair will have eventually turned white, but I will not forget to tell my grandchildren, "You have a beautiful youngest aunt. She died when she just passed her twenty first birthday." Theu Dong (for Memorial Day of Nov. 24, 2000) |
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