Who else lives here with you? I asked her in a low voice. No one else right now. My dad went somewhere,... she did not finish. She slowly took out the orange segments and laid them beside her mother's pillow.

The tiny fire in the stove gradually died down, and it was getting dark out­side. I stood up to go. The little girl held me back, quickly and deftly took out a big needle with a linen thread and worked at the bowl-shaped orange peel. She linked the opposite corners in such a way as to make a small basket, which she hung on a thin bamboo stick. She then took the stub of a candle from the windowsill, placed it in the orange peel basket, and lit it. When she had done all this, she handed the lamp to me, saying, It's dark now, and the road is slippery. Let this little orange lamp light the way for you up the mountain.

I accepted the lamp with admira­tion, and thanked her. She came out to see me off. I did not know what to say. Again, as if to console me, she spoke. Dad will soon come back. Then Mum will be well. She drew a circle in the air with her small hand, and then pressed it on mine, and said, Then, we will all be well. Obvi­ously, her all included me.

Holding this ingeniously-made little lamp, I walked slowly up the dark, wet mountain path. In truth, the dim or­ange light could not reach very far. Howev­er, the little girl's calmness and courage, and her optimism, made me feel as though the way in front of me was boundlessly illu­minated.

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