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12月24日小故事分享:The Best Christmas Gifts

Bobby was getting cold sitting out in his backyard in the snow. Bobby didn’t wear boots; he didn’t like them and anyway he didn’t own any. The thin sneakers he wore had a few holes in them and they did a poor job of keeping out the cold.
Bobby had been in his backyard for about an hour already. And, try as he might, he could not come up with an idea for his mother’s Christmas gift. He shook his head as he thought, “This is useless, even if I do come up with an idea, I don’t have any money to spend.”
  Ever since his father had passed away three years ago, the family of five had struggled. It wasn’t because his mother didn’t care, or try, there just never seemed to be enough. She worked nights at the hospital, but the small wage that she was earning could only be stretched so far.
  What the family lacked in money and material things, they more than made up for in love and family unity. Bobby had two older and one younger sister, who ran the household in their mother’s absence.
All three of his sisters had already made beautiful gifts for their mother. Somehow, it just wasn’t fair. Here it was Christmas Eve already, and he had nothing.
  Wiping a tear from his eye, Bobby kicked the snow and started to walk down to the street where the shops and stores were. It wasn’t easy being six without a father, especialy when he needed a man to talk to.
Bobby walked from shop to shop, looking into each decorated window. Everything seemed so beautiful and so out of reach. It was starting to get dark and Bobby reluctantly turned to walk home when suddenly his eyes caught the glimmer of the setting sun’s rays reflecting off of something along the curb. He reached down and discovered a shiny dime.
  Never before has anyone felt so wealthy as Bobby felt at that moment. As he held his new found treasure, a warmth spread throughout his entire body and he walked into the first tore he saw. His excitement quickly turned cold when salesperson after salesperson told him that he could not buy anything with only a dime.
  He saw a flower shop and went inside to wait in line. When the shop owner asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he could buy one flower for his mother’s Christmas gift. The shop owner looked at Bobby and his ten cent offering. Then he put his hand on Bobby’s shoulder and said to him, “You just wait here and I’ll see what I can do for you.”



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The shop owner came back with a  paper flower , and said , " You can fill your love in the  flower which you fold ."

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Just want to know the ending of this story.

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Love chang the world

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Does he get flower at last?

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goodluck

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sorry,i do not know

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what' s the ending of the story ?

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the boy is poor

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感谢楼主分享

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Just want to know the ending of this story.

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same there

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I donot  understand the meaning of story

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me too.

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Wanna see what the ending of the story is.

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