Lily by: Daniela Jane Talangan
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i! My name is Mary, I don’t have a last name. Sister Lily said I was found at the orphanage's door eight years ago. I was raised in the orphanage since then. I grew up having no mother nor father beside me. I only have Sister Lily. Every time a couple visits us, I can see other kids evincing all their goody-two-shoes self so that they’ll caught their attention. You know, foster parents and the like? A fortiori, a parent who will adopt them for good. Early on my years staying at the orphanage, I wasn’t a highflyer, I never was. I am not worth for an eye-catch being jejune I suppose. Their eyes tell, they despise me. I only have Sister Lily. But one cold summer morn, she wake me up from bed. With my sight still blurry and voice still husky, I got up, only to see a woman smiling so warmly. Hope against hope. For the first time in my entire life, I saw straight line in a slope road. Mother. I test the word in my tongue, and it just felt so overwhelming. Now I have realized why the kids just push cutthroat just to have a parent adopt them. Receiving a love at first-rate, this is a new. She didn’t give me the life I have, but she will make me live my life from now on. I only have Sister Lily, before. Guess it is different now. We drive interstate five and ahead until we reached a pale blue house. Yes. A home. I t was already heaven-sent to have a Mother and a home of my own. Would I be even luckier to have a Father? A father. I've only ideated a man who would take me to school, carry me home and will teach me things I needed to learn, but now! It’s surreal! But he's here, in front of my bare eyes. He has the same warm smile as mother. Father. I am beyond clouds! O feel so thrilled, would there be an end? Oh, I'd stop the hands of the clock from ticking, pull the calendar leaves so that it would cease from falling, and pause every moment so I can capture it forever! If only I can. I would want this to be my endgame. I only have Sister Lily, before. But now, I have mother, and father, and a home! Who would want more? I have it all! I even have my last name now, Mary Thurber! I now have my own family, not just my orphanage family, but a real family! I am going to enroll in a regular school soon, mother will cook
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