英语温馨夜读I PART2 06 He Made Me An Angel 他让我成为天使

[00:01.08]He Made Me An Angel 他让我成为天使 [00:08.84]When I was in seventh grade, [00:10.88]I was a candy striper at a local hospital in my town. [00:15.30]I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer. [00:19.79]Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. [00:23.84]He never had any visitors, [00:26.35]and nobody seemed to care about his condition. [00:29.09]I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, [00:33.79]helping with anything that needed to be done. [00:35.98]He became a close friend of mine, [00:38.92]even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand. [00:42.76]Mr. Gillespie was in a coma. [00:45.82]I left for a week to vacation with my parents, [00:50.15]and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone. [00:52.83]I didn’t have the nerve to ask any of the nurses where he was, [00:58.01]for fear they might tell me he had died. [01:00.59]So with many questions unanswered, [01:04.57]I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year. [01:08.15]Several years later, when I was a junior in high school, [01:12.32]I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. [01:15.47]When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears. [01:19.74]He was alive! [01:21.51]I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie, [01:24.99]and if he had been in a coma about five years ago. [01:27.84]With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes. [01:32.21]I explained how I knew him, [01:35.04]and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. [01:38.56]His eyes welled up with tears, [01:41.55]and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received. [01:44.14]He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose, [01:48.74]he could hear me talking to him [01:50.78]and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. [01:53.44]He thought it was an angel, not a person, who was there with him. [01:57.70]Mr. Gillespie firmly believed [02:00.40]that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive. [02:03.28]Then he told me about his life [02:06.31]and what happened to him to put him in the coma. [02:08.31]We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug, [02:12.10]said our good-byes and went our separate ways. [02:15.10]Although I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. [02:20.35]I know that I made a difference between his life and his death. [02:24.40]More important, he has made a tremendous difference in my life. [02:28.23]I will never forget him and what he did for me: he made me an angel.

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