My kid was in the Army plus spent the last year in the Middle East, in the desert; When he came home, it was early Spring, but the temperatures were still in the low fifties.
He was shivering, even with the furnace on… My child came home from college one afternoon plus asked where Bryan was.
I told her he was in his room, however she ran up the stairs without even saying hello. She knocked on his door, plus all he said was enter. She pulled a box from behind her plus told him happy anniversary. He said his anniversary wasn’t for another month, however she wasn’t going to wait. She had stopped at the store on the way home plus obtained him a space heater. She noticed how cold he was all the time, plus thought an extra space furnace for his room would supply him some comfort. He told her to stand with him a while, then opened the space heater. I saw the first real smile he had when he came downstairs an hour later. He had his arm around his sibling, plus they were talking like they did before he joined the Army. i saw a genuine friendship there, plus he asked if I knew what she gave him for his anniversary. I shook my head. He said he got a current space furnace for his room. For the first time since he got home, he was finally warm. If we could only erase the haunted look in his eyes as absolutely as the space furnace erased his cold.