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It was eight o'clock on a cold spring night. I was so tired. I had
depended on a walking stick to go anywhere for seven weeks, recovering from
surgery, and I couldn't find a way to cheer myself up.
The phone rang for the sixth time in less than an hour. We knew
who it was. My mother had been suffering from dementia and mental distress.
There was little we could do to help her.
As her eldest daughter, I tried my best to help her. Though we
visited every few days, she believed that her daughters had not visited in
months. She thought that her friend Jimmy never wanted to see her again, even
though he called her and visited weekly. She had no idea that she had repeated
the things she was about to say a hundred times today and a hundred times the
day before. She had no idea that I had undergone surgery, nor could she
remember her own granddaughter's name. She forgot most of her own past.
This time, I got angry with my mother. "Mom!" I shouted.
"We care about you. We visited two days ago! Mom, you have to believe me,
and if you don't, I cannot talk to you anymore!"
Silence. Then she said, "I am only calling to say hello. Why
are you shouting?"
"I'm shouting because you keep calling me a hundred times
every single day! I'm shouting because you are asking me the same question a
thousand times every time you call me! I'm shouting because I have repeated the
answer ten thousand times! I'm shouting because I don't know what to say!"
I sat on the sofa, realizing that my daughter was watching me. She
heard me blame my mother, heard me lose my patience and say that someone I
loved was a burden. I curled up on the sofa, upset.
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My
five-year-old daughter asked to speak to her grandmother on the phone.
……
I watched
my daughter care about her weak grandmother with such deftness.
答案:Para 1: My five-year-old daughter asked to speak to her grandmother on the phone.I handed it over without a word. She gave a warm greeting to her grandmother on the phone. I heard my mother exclaim through the receiver. My daughter shared something interesting happening in the kindergarten with her. I heard her cheering on the other side of the phone. My mother expressed her love for her. But then she asked my daughter the same questions again. My daughter patiently answered again and then offered to sing for her grandmother. Para 2: I watched my daughter care about her weak grandmother with such deftness. She did much better than me. She answered every question asked by my mother with patience and offered to do something that made her grandmother happy, while I just yelled at my mother like a mad woman. Instantly, I felt nothing other than extremely ashamed. Never before had I been urged so much to make an apology to my mother. And I did it that night in spite of having to walk with a walking stick.