"- Good morning, darling. I brought you breakfast!" Julian said with a smile
"- Good morning my love. I've had enough of these vitaminized yogurts and look at me, I'm as fat as a pig!" complained Kelly.
"- Your body has changed but in your heart and soul, you're still the same. I still love you just as much." replied her husband, unfazed by his wife's bad mood. After a brief silence he continued, “And you're going to love your new caregiver.” He then opened the door wide to let in their daughter pushing the cart.
"Hello, Mom. I'm going to give you breakfast today!
- You look very pretty like this. Come closer so I can see you better!"
Mary-Annella obeyed, then gently gave her mother her spoonfuls of yoghurt, followed by a glass of orange juice to help digestion. Then she summoned up the courage to announce to her parents:
"-Dad, Mom, I've rediscovered my faith. At the end of the summer, I'll be joining the Daughters of Charity in Paris"
Kelly and Julian were upset by this news: with a son who was a priest and a daughter who will become a nun, they would never have grandchildren, but they didn't oppose Mary-Annella's vocation.
Kelly died on the day her daughter entered the congregation. Julian was inconsolable and promised never to remarry.
Two years later, a neighbor worried that Julian hadn't come out to water his flowers entered the house, whose door was never locked. He found Julian dead in his bed. An inquest concluded that he had died of a natural heart attack. The children had the following words engraved on his grave:
"Here lies a loving father and devoted husband".
The end
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