A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother
who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young
girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied,
"I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents,
and a rose costs two dollars."
The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose." He bought
the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were
leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said, "Yes, please! You can take me
to my mother."
She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug
grave.
The man returned to the flower shop, cancelled the wire order, picked up a
bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.
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