house, he arrived unannounced to Linda’s family and rang the doorbell.
After hearing his introduction as well as the purpose of this trip, Mrs. Birtish
was touched to reach out and embraced him and said, “Young man, if you’ve
got nowhere to stay, my husband and I would love for you to spend your
weekend with us.
That young man happily stayed at their house. When Mrs. Birtish took him
to look around Linda’s room, he saw a Plato’s book on Linda’s bookshelf.
He’d also read Plato in Braille. Then he realized she had read Hegel. Once
again, he’d read Hegel in Braille.
The next morning, Mrs. Birtish was gently looking at him and said, “You
know, I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere before, but I don’t know where.”
All of a sudden she remembered. She ran upstairs and pulled out the last
picture - also the only one that Linda had never sold when she was alive. It
was a portrait of her ideal man that she met in her dreams.
Surprisingly, the face in that picture was virtually identical to this young
man who had received Linda’s eyes.
Then Linda’s mother read him a passage in the last poem Linda had written
on her deathbed:
Two hearts passing in the dream.
Falling in love
Never able to gain each other’s sight.
- Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Cống hiến cuối cùng
Cuối cùng thì Linda Birtish đã hiến tặng toàn bộ cơ thể mình. Linda là một
