和妹妹在一起的13年，幸福的淚水滑落在我的臉龐，因為她的存在讓我感到幸福。我是如此幸運，因為父母帶給我這份比寵愛我還要珍貴的禮物。這份禮物讓我懂得了什麼是愛，如何珍惜愛。
她就是那個一直守護在我房間裡的天使。
Butterfly
蝴蝶
“Mum, I’m back,”I called as I stepped into our flat after school. Usually Mum would reply, urging me to take my bath, eat and then do my school work. But this day－March 1, 1961 —— there was silence.
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I walked into the bedroom the entire family shared. Mum was sitting at her dressing table, tears streaming down her cheeks. She looked up and said, “Your sister died this morning.”I just stood there, not knowing what to say. I was ten years old and the concept of death had no real meaning to me.
I was trying to make sense of the situation when I found Elizabeth’s school bag, sitting on a small table in the corner of the bedroom. The rectangular brown hard-case bag looked as if it was waiting to be claimed by its owner.
That evening I stood on the balcony, watching every bus that pulled up at the stop opposite our building.
“Is she coming back?”I kept asking my mother.“Why can’t she come back? Why did she have to die?”Mum could offer neither comfort nor meaningful answers to my ceaseless1 queries2.
At about nine olock that evening, a black butterfly flew into the kitchen. It fluttered around the hall and landed high on a wall.“Don’t chase it away,”mum said.
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