I grew up in a small town where elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when we children could go home for lunch and find our mothers waiting. At the time, I didn't consider this to be so important, although today it certainly would be. Actually, ourlunch timetogether in the past years had had a great influence on my life before I realized it.
Our lunch time when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks mymotherhad painstakinglypracticedmy lines (台词) with me. But no matter how easily Ideliveredthem at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained patiently that she needed anarratorand had written a narrator's part to the play, and asked me to play theroleof the narrator. Her words, kindly delivered, still hurt me especially when I saw my part go to another girl.
I didn't tell mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed myupset, and instead of suggesting we practice mylines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard. It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellowdandelions(蒲公英) appearing unexpectedly through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with small amounts of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one of the bushes. "I think I'm going to dig up all these weeds," she said, pulling a blossom up by all its roots. "From now on, we'll only have roses in this garden.'' I immediately argued, "But I like dandelions. All flowers arebeautiful— even dandelions."
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"Do you mean that every flower has its own beauty?" asked my mother thoughtfully.
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Having learned what had happened, Mom patted me on the back gently and said, "but you will be a beautiful narrator."
