EMPATHY
Lini Richarda Grol
language
(Amazon Kindle, Jan. 19, 2011)
Annie is an abandoned girl who has lived in various children homes. Her mother never comes nor writes a birthday or Christmas cards to her. Yet Annie secretly believes that one day her mother will come to take her home.For she remembers how once long ago her pretty mother had come, and taken her home when she was about four or five years old. Suddenly she had been special with a Mom and Dad, and her own room. Mom had bought pretty dresses for her and told her over and over that she loved her. Daddy had been kind and had often told her that he loved her. But when suddenly Dad left, Mam told her angrily that he was not even her Dad and blamed her for his leaving. And soon after Annie was sent again to a children’s home.That short happy period was enough for Annie to believe in her mother’s love. Therefore she trustingly waited for her return.But her mother's life reflected on Annie’s life, for after moving from one to the next institution, she finds a happy time as nanny for three small children.Finally she can go and seach for her mother. She finds her mother in a poor mental and physical condition, She can hardly talk and at first does not recognize Annie.But one day, seriously ill with a high fever, her mind clears.She recognizes Annie and talks of her past, when as a teenager she had become pregnant and Annie was born, and why she had to leave her baby at the Childrens Aid. Annie did not get a chance to tell her mother about her own difficult life. Soon after her bright moments her mother dies. However their short talks have made Annie believe that her Mother, in her own way, had loved her.