The little red wagon
My friend Gayle has been “living” with cancer for nearly four years, and
unfortunately it is progressively getting worse. During one of our
conversations, Gayle expressed that one of her top secret childhood wishes
was to have a red wagon. As a child she could never make it come true,
because she believed that if you told your greatest birthday wish it wouldn’t
come true. However, whenever her birthday came, Gayle was too happy to
forget all about it. As a result, my dear friend had not had any red wagon so
far.
I was at a small ice cream stand one day and suddenly saw one of weekly
drawing’s prize as a miniature red wagon that looked so nice and lively. “I’m
able to help Gayle!”, excitedly yell to myself.
Since then, I began to like ice-cream. Every time making a purchase at this
stand, I could fill out a ticket for a chance to win. And weekly drawing will
be held every Sunday morning. After several weeks waiting for those
Sunday mornings, spending a lot of savings on buying a lot of ice cream
cones, I didn’t win even a time.
Then I decided to get up the courage to ask the person in charge if I could
buy one of those red wagons. I got near to the window to get into
conversation with him whose face was familiar to me for a while. I began to
tell my friend’s story, and that, I wanted to buy one of his. As talking to the
stand owner, I could feel my throat tighten and my eyes overflowed with
tears. Somehow I managed to persuade him to sell the wagon. In fact, the
miniature red wagon was so long that it didn’t really matter if lacking of one.
On collecting all the money left inside my pockets to him, I was pleased to
receive the new “item” just successfully negotiated and brought it home. The
wagon was delivered the next day, and for Gayle, my action made her dream
come true. The following day of that special day, I received a letter that read:
Dear Bonnie,
