什么是愛

李小葉

A story is told about a soldier who was finally cominghome from the war. He called his parents from SanFrancisco.

"Mom and Dad， I' m coming home， but I' ve a favor toask. I have a friend I' d like to bring home with me."

"Sure ！ " they replied，" We'd love to meet him

"There ' s something you should know"， the son contin-ued， he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting."He stepped ona land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere elseto go， and I want him to come live with us."

"I' m sorry to hear that， son. Maybe we can help himfind somewhere to live."

"No， Mom and Dad， I want him to live with us. "

"Son，" said the father， "you don' t know what you' reasking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terribleburden on us. We have our own lives to live， and we can' tlet something like this interfere with our lives. I think youshould just come home and forget about this guy. He'll finda way to live on his own. "

At that point， the son hung up the phone. The parentsheard nothing more from him.

A few days later， however， they received a call fromthe San Francisco police. Their son had died after fallingfrom a building， they were told. The police believed it wassuicide. The grief- stricken parents flew to San Franciscoand were taken to the city morgue to identify the body oftheir son.

They recognized him， but to their horror， they also dis-covered something they didn' t know， their son had onlyone arm and one leg.

這是一個有關最終從戰場歸來的士兵的故事。他從舊金山打電話給他的父母：

“爸爸媽媽，我回來了，可是我有個請求。我想帶一個朋友和我一起回家。”

“當然好啊！”他們回答，“我們會很高興見到他的。”

“有些事情你們應該知道，”兒子又繼續說道，“他在戰場上受了重傷。由于踩到了地雷，他失去了一只胳膊和一條腿，他現在沒地方可去，我想請他和我們一起生活。”

“兒子，聽到那個我很難過，或許我們可以幫他找個安身之處。”

“不行，爸爸媽媽，我想讓他和我們一起生活。”

“兒子，”父親又接著說，“你不知道自己在說些什么。像他這樣的殘疾人會對我們的生活造成很大的負擔。我們還要過自己的生活，不能讓這樣的事情干擾我們的生活。我認為你應該先回家然后忘了他，他會找到自己的一片天空的。”

就在此時兒子掛斷了電話，他的父母再也沒有他的消息了。

然而幾天后，他們接到了舊金山的警察打來的電話，被告知他們兒子已經墜樓身亡了。警方相信這是一起自殺案件。于是這對傷心欲絕的父母飛往舊金山，被帶到停尸間去辨認兒子的遺體。