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My mother was 82 and living in Keoluk when, unaccountably無法理解的, she insisted upon堅持 attending a convention會議 of old settlers of the Mississippi Valley.

All the way一路到底 there, and it was some distance, she was young again with excitement and eagerness.

At the hotel she asked immediately立即 for Dr. Barrett of St. Louis.

He had left for home that morning and would not be back, she was被 told.

She turned away轉過臉去, the fire all gone from her, and asked to go home.

Once there she sat silent and thinking for many days, then told us that when she was 18 she had loved a y...

My mother was 82 and living in Keoluk when, unaccountably無法理解的, she insisted upon堅持 attending a convention會議 of old settlers of the Mississippi Valley.

All the way一路到底 there, and it was some distance, she was young again with excitement and eagerness.

At the hotel she asked immediately立即 for Dr. Barrett of St. Louis.

He had left for home that morning and would not be back, she was被 told.

She turned away轉過臉去, the fire all gone from her, and asked to go home.

Once there she sat silent and thinking for many days, then told us that when she was 18 she had loved a young medical student with all her heart.

There was a misunderstanding and he left the country; she had immediately married, to show him that she did not care.

She had never seen him since and then she had read in a newspaper that he was going to attend the old settlers’ convention.

“Only three hours before we reached that hotel he had been there,” she mourned哀悼、悲傷.

She had kept that pathetic悲傷 burden in her heart 64 years without any of us suspecting懷疑 it.

Before the year was out, her memory began to fail.

She would write letters to schoolmates who had been dead for 40 years and wonder why they never answered. Four years later she died.