Title: Elusive White Violets
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Blog Entry: I learned early that I should listen to the advice of my Mother. When I was 5, I knew of a hillside in the woods behind our home where the beautiful white violets with blue centers grew! I knew she liked them very much and wanted to go pick some for her. After asking her if I could go out there, and having been given a negative answer, I waited until she went back into the house to journey out there to get them for her. I just wanted to surprise her. While I was picking a handful of them for her, I slipped on the hillside and fell backwards. No big deal... I kept picking. After accumulating enough, I raced back home to give them to her. When she came out, I handed them to her, when I noticed a strange warm sensation going down my leg. I reached back there and assumed the warm soft substance was not blood running down my leg, but a worm coming out of it. I started crying and told her about the worm... when she looked, she ran in and got my Father (oh, great... King Kong). I got put into the car and my journey ended in the emergency room where they butterflied the wound on the back side of my leg. They couldn't stitch it because the back side of my knee bends. I hadn't seen white violets with blue centers since living there... I almost thought I imagined them. I looked in different locations in different woods to no avail. This is the 1st summer after losing my Mom. As my friend (Kathie) and I were walking our pets around the high school- middle school block, I saw some white flowers about 6 inches away from where we were walking. Upon closer examination... I saw white violets with blue centers! In 45 years I had not seen a single one! I pointed the small patch out to Kathie and told her my little story... she replied that she never knew there was such a thing. I would like to think it was Mom's way of telling me she is still around! Not a day goes by when I don't still miss my Mom. I don't know if this sadness will ever dull out! I know someday I will see her again... but it still doesn't help right now.
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