“我不知道。”我说道。有的时候，我真是气极了，我想走过去抓住艾莉，用力地摇晃她，冲着她大喊：“和我说话——不然，我就把你关起来，不让你离开！”我感到自己差点儿说出所有母亲所说的最恐怖的话：“想想我为你所做的一切。”
一天深夜，我在洗漱，准备睡觉。这时，艾莉走到卫生间，看我在那里刷牙。一瞬间，我觉得她必定看不上我刷牙的模样。但是，她说：“我想读点儿东西给你听。”她手里拿的是学校发的小册子，“这是给父母的小提示。”
我看着她的脸，她高声地读着：“上面说道，不要询问你的孩子是否想家。‘在最初的几周时间里，她也许会觉得不适应，可是不必担心，这是过渡期间的正常现象。多给她写信、打电话，给她送点儿好吃的’ ”
她哽咽着说不成话，走过来将头埋进我的肩膀。我轻轻地摸着她的头发，担心开口说话就会让她从我的怀里挣脱。就这样，我们站了很长时间，摇动着身体，心又凝聚在一起。
我明白，还会发生不愉快的事情，我们还会为了某些事而斗嘴。然而此刻，午夜时分，我能站在这里，已骗很知足了。我们都累了，都很伤心，我的下巴上沾满了牙膏。我紧紧地搂着——与此同时，也要放手——那个正试着和我说再见的女儿。
生活是一面镜子
Do You Have Your Wallet
à 克斯曼·弗兰克 / Laksman Frank
This is a story about a learning experience that had a big effect on the way that I live my life. The teacher in the story did not scream, assign homework, give me tests or even grade me on my work. I was taught by one of the most effective methods of teaching, one that only people with lots of love can do.
"My wallet！ Where is it?" were my first words when I found out my wallet was missing. I searched my memory for a few good seconds, then realized that I had left my precious wallet at the library. Not only did I leave it at the library, but I had left it in the library' s public restroom！ I distinctly remembered seeing it on the shelf as I went to the bathroom.
Because the library was now closed, I had to wait until the next morning to begin my search. When I got there the next day, all I found was a sparkling clean restroom, its counters clean and its floors shiny white. This was the first time I could remember ever hating to see a clean bathroom. As I walked out, I looked at myself in the mirror and shook my head at the forgetful fool in front of me.
Now all I could hope for was that the person who cleaned the restroom had found my wallet. So I politely approached an old lady reading her book at the front desk. I asked her if a wallet had been found in the bathroom yesterday. She didn' t answer me until she found a good place to pull herself away from her book. Then she peered at me from behind the thick black glasses parked on her nose. Letting out a quiet sigh, she slowly struggled out of her comfortable sitting position. She walked through a door and vanished for a moment. Then she came back to the desk.
"No."
That was that. I quickly thanked her and walked off.
I wondered what I would do if I had found a wallet containing sixty dollars, a phone card and many other irreplaceable personal items. Finally, I painfully accepted the fact that my wallet was gone.
A week later, after I had canceled my bank card and reported my license missing, I received a mysterious package in the mail. Sure enough, it was my wallet！ And most amazingly, nothing was missing！ But something was different about it. There was a little yellow sheet of paper folded up in one of the wallet pockets that had not been there before. I slowly unfolded the paper. Into my hand fell a little copper medallion of Christ. The letter read something like this:
Always keep this medallion with you, no matter what your religion is, so that the angel that was watching over you last week will always be close.
This person didn' t even leave a return address. So I couldn' t thank whoever it was. I felt that this was an act of pure kindness that was extremely rare.
From that day on, I promised myself that whenever I am in a situation where I can help others the way that this person helped me,I will follow this example and make them as happy as I was when I opened that package！
这是一个发生在我上学时候的故事，它对我的生活产生了巨大影响。在这个故事中，老师没有大喊大叫，没有布置家庭作业，没有考试，甚至没有评定功课成绩。然而，那是最有成效的教学方法，只有富有爱心的人才能做到。
当发现钱包丢了以后，我说的第一句话就是：“我的钱包！放哪里了？”我回想了好几秒钟，然后才想起是落在图书馆了，而且是图书馆的公共洗手间！当时去洗手间的时候，我还看见它在架子上，我记得很清楚。
图书馆现在已骗闭馆了，我不得不第二天早晨再去找。第二天一到图书馆，我就看到洗手间里干净明亮，洗手台擦得一尘不染，地板反射出亮光。我仍然记得，那是我第一次痛恨看到洗手间如此干净。我走了出去，看着镜子中的自己，对着面前这个爱忘事的笨蛋摇了摇头。
现在，我只能寄望于洗手间的清洁工发现钱包了。于是，我向一位坐在前台看书的上了年纪的夫人走去，我表现得很有礼貌。我问她昨天是否有人在洗手间捡到一个钱包，她并没有立即回答我，直到读到一个认为可以中断的地方才停了下来。接着，她眯着眼睛，从鼻梁上架着的厚厚的黑色眼镜后面看了看我。她轻轻地叹了一口气，缓缓地从舒服的座椅上挣扎下来，走进一个门口不见了。片刻之后，她又回到了前台。
“没有。”
除此之外，她没说其他的。我迅速地向她道谢，然后就走开了。
我在想，如果我捡到了一个钱包，里面装着60美元、一张电话卡和许多别人无法使用的私人物品，我会怎么办呢？我的钱包已骗丢了，最终，我不得不接受这个事实。
银行卡和证件挂失一周之后，我收到一个神秘的包裹。我确信那就是我的钱包！而且一件物品也没少，这真是令人惊讶！但有点儿不一样。我在钱包的一个夹层里，发现一张从来没有见过的折叠起来的黄色小纸条。我慢慢地展开那张纸条，一枚í 质的基督徽章掉落到我的手里。那张纸条上写着这样的话：
“不管你的宗教信仰是什么，把这枚徽章永远带在身上。这样，上个星期守护你的天使将会一直伴随你。”
这个寄包裹的人甚至没有留下回信地址，因此，我也不知道应该向谁致谢。我感觉到，这是世间少有的善良之举。
从那天开始，我向自己发誓，无论何时，只要我能够做到，我都会去帮助别人，就像帮助我的那个人一样。我要把那个人当做自己的榜样，并且让别人体会到我打开包裹时的那种喜悦之情。
非同一般的友谊
Friends for Life
蒂娜·利兹 / Tina Leeds
Tim left for college on a Saturday and I on a Sunday. It would be the first time we had ever been apart over the course of our high school friendship. Ours was more than a normal boy/girl friendship, though. Our close connection was the envy of others. I was in awe of his amazing personality, his hilarious jokes and his little-boy looks. He could read my mind, finish my sentences and bring me to hysterical laughter with only a look. We adored each other. As our last summer together approached, our bond only grew.
The summer started off slowly, with Tim trying to get my mind off the jerk I now refer to as my ex-boyfriend and a total waste of my time. Tim was dating one of my close friends, and had been for a couple of months. I had to sit by and watch as she ridiculed him, made a joke of him in front of our friends, and eventually made him cry when she finally ended it. She broke my best friend' s heart, and I ached with him.