Years later, David and Caroline met again, and Caroline said to David:
You escaped a lot of heartache, but you also missed out on countless joys.
In 1964, on a snowy night, doctor David personally delivered the baby to his wife. A pair of twins descended on earth, but the girl suffered from congenital Down syndrome. In order to protect his family, or to protect himself, David deceived his wife and daughter that she had died, and commissioned a nurse Caroline to send her away. This decision has changed the two families ever since... Carolyn, a nurse who has always had a crush on David, did not send the girl away, she moved to another city in anonymity, single-handedly fighting against social injustice, carrying up the hardships of life, and giving her daughter a warm home...
The living son and the "dead" daughter; the husband and wife who have a safe material life but cannot be honest with each other, the single mother who is difficult and hard but sincere and brave every minute and second... The keeper of secrets, the deceived, the children who crave the love of their parents, the parents who feel empty and uncomfortable because they have no children, the wandering people, the people who have no fixed place, everyone in the book struggles with fate, and carries the burden of life's suffering with all their strength...
The author of this book is the feature-length debut of american female writer Kim Edwards, and was remade into a film by director Mick Jackson in 2008. The story of the work takes place on a snowstorm night in 1964, when doctor David personally delivers his wife. A pair of twins descended on earth, but the girl suffered from congenital Down syndrome. In order to protect his family, or to protect himself, David deceived his wife and daughter that they had died. Carolyn, a nurse who has always had a crush on David, did not send the girl away, she moved to another city in anonymity, single-handedly fighting against social injustice, carrying up the hardships of life, and giving her daughter a warm home...
But this decision has changed the two families ever since... For twenty-five years, Nora could not bear the pain of losing her daughter, and began to run away and drink heavily, while David was entangled in guilt all day long but could not speak, and could only take a "Memory Guardian" camera to find the shadows of baby girls, girls, and maidens, as if to leave a record of his non-existent daughter's growth.
In the end, Doctor David and wife Norah divorced. Because of the long-term mental depression, David died of a heart attack, Noarh finally met his own daughter Phoebe, a child with relatively slow intellectual development, working in a copy and typing shop, but living a simple and happy life, falling in love with a boy with the same mental and physical state, and about to become a happy bride.
I think this work can cause us to think a lot: when faced with choices on the road of life, how can we make ourselves make decisions that follow our hearts? What exactly is true love?
Many times, we think that love is selfless and fearless giving, whether it is the love of parents or the love of husband and wife. In fact, we forget that love should be loved in the way the other party expects, otherwise, loving and being loved are a burden. David loves his wife very much, and he sends away the sick child, just because he is afraid that his wife will experience a nurturing relationship in the future, and it will be more painful to lose the child. His original intention was good, he wanted to protect his wife from some harm. However, he forgot that lies meant greater harm; not to mention that love, which was shackled by the spirit, was no longer what his wife expected.
In the journey of life, we will more or less have this experience: at a certain moment, a certain decision, a certain action, at that time, we can not understand. After a long time, after much thought, I suddenly realized what kind of results my decision had caused.
