IT’S ALL IN YOUR ATTITUDE
Extravagances and luxuries did not exist for my mother. The one exception to her frugality was a frilly nightgown which she had never worn. She explained “I have that nightgown so that if I ever have to go to the hospital, I’ll still look nice.” Many years later, my mother began to suffer from a mysterious disease which destroyed her health and vitality. On a winter day just before her sixty-ninth birthday, she packed up her nightgown and checked into the hospital for tests. The physician confided with me over the final test results: my mother had only a matter of weeks to live. I agonized for days over whether to tell her the news. Was there any hope I could give her? I decided not to tell her–not just yet. I resolved instead to lift her spirits on her birthday by giving her the most expensive and beautiful matching nightgown and robe I could find. At the very…
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