Snapshots

Forrest, Steven

ISBN 10: 1462034098 / ISBN 13: 9781462034093

Editore: iUniverse 2011-07, 2011

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Titolo: Snapshots

Casa editrice: iUniverse 2011-07

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: PF

Condizione: New

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Riassunto:

Thankfully, a few months later, I got the best Christmas gift of all: my dad's life. I went up to Portland and visited him in the hospital. He was in the hospital for three months. He couldn't even talk or eat the first week in the hospital. My dad always tells me that when I first saw him in the hospital, I stood over him, grim faced, like I was an angel guarding him. I did not say a word. I just stood there. And though many people do not know this, while I was standing there, a tear rolled down my cheek and landed on the hospital blanket covering my dad's injured leg. Just one tear. I did not break into tears or sob; I just silently cried all my misery into one tear; one tear of healing, which I gave to my dad . . .

L'autore:

Steven Forrest is a retired court administrator from the Los Angeles Superior Court. His story is a response to his daughter's English class essay and her personal trauma from his near-death accident where he acknowledges warmth, love, compassion and a lifetime of mistakes that are present in everyone's life.