要分别了,懵懂的孙子像往常一样无忧无虑,而孤独的老人忧心忡忡。终究还是不能避免离别时的伤心不舍和分别后的牵肠挂肚,老人担心距离会让孩子把自己淡忘,毕竟他还只是个蹒跚学步的两岁孩童。然而,孩子并没有忘记,在遥远的电话那头清晰地喊着:“奶奶……”
“I will miss you very much when you leave.” I muttered to hide the catch in my voice.
Thirty-month-old Andy leaned across my living-room rug and handed me a green, plastic suitcase no larger than a walnut and asked, “Will you come to visit?”
“Of course,” I said with as confident a tone as I could muster over the lump in my throat.
“I’ll do what I can to keep our connection alive,” I thought, “but you’re so young, you’ll forget me in no time.”
It was the last afternoon in my year of taking care of my grandson three afternoons a week. We filled his mother’s old, red-plastic circus train with the giraffe, elephant, and monkeys and pushed them under the footstool. We pretended they were moving to Michigan[2] next week, too.
Then we went on our usual amble[3] up the block. He stopped along the way to poke rocks with a stick and pick up leaves.
“Here, Nana. This is for you,” he beamed, and offered me an apple leaf and a piece of gravel. I stuffed them into the pocket of my jeans, a precious hoard[4] against the coming drought of our separation.
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