After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner.36woman was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years, but my work had made37impossible to visit her very often. That night I called to38her to go out for dinner.“What’s wrong? Are you39?”she asked. “I thought that it would be40to spend some time with you. Just the two of us,”I answered. She thought about it41moment, and agreed.
That Friday after work,42I drove to pick her up, I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I43that, she, too, seemed to be44about our date. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to45her last wedding anniversary.
We went to a restaurant that,46not elegant, was very nice and cozy. When I read the menu, Mom sat there47at me. A nostalgic(怀旧的)smile was48her lips. During the dinner, we had a(an)49conversation—nothing special but catching up on(了解)recent s of each other’s life.
A few days50, my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do51for her. Sometime later, I received an envelope with a note52“You will never know what that night meant to me. I’m looking forward to the53dinner. I love you, Son.”
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time“I LOVE YOU”. Nothing in life is more important than your54. Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be55till“some other time”.
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