"Do you need a vase for your purple camations (康乃馨)? a gentle voice1 me in my hospital bed. It was one of those few2 moments when no one else was in the room with me and I had slipped into sleep. Usually the room was full of3 and their families.
"Yes, these are from a special friend," I4 to sit up in spite of my weak body. She was a cleaner and while clearing the desk beside my bed, she5 the flowers. But why would she care? And she said"purple camations"6 I asked her if she likes flowers. Her eyes lit up and she spoke in excited7 She loves flowers so
much that every flower in her garden each day gets a special hug and8 from her before she leaves for work. My God! I can't believe it!
I told her tbat I've been9 a lot of flowers from my relatives and usually I had them delivered to the nurse station. And I decided to give her the purple carnations just because of her10 about flowers.
She was in great11 . But being the nice person she is, she still tried to12 me to have half of them and she would happily take the rest home. I asked her if she could13 them with others instead. She was doubly happy.
She left, came back and said,"IT will be thinking of you whenever I see purple. " I almost 14
Such goodwill for something so15 ? I was really amazed and impressed by this cleaner! .
