Love fills the years

The light rain in the afternoon was not heavy enough to require a raincoat, but it was enough to wet the heart in a moment of uncontrollable emotions. A simple text message from her father: "If you don't bring a raincoat, wait until the rain stops before coming home!", that was enough for her to understand how much love her father had for her. She was already the mother of a 10-year-old child, but in her father's eyes, she was still a little girl.

She grew up in a poor coastal countryside. Her parents worked hard all year round. She was born like any other normal child. The presence of children's laughter made the thatched house even more cozy. However, when she was 2 years old, she had a fever and had convulsions in the middle of the night. Her father quickly carried her on his back in the dark to the commune health station. They said she was getting worse and had to go to a higher level hospital. At that time, there were no ambulances like today, so her father frantically asked everywhere to hire a jeep to take her to the hospital.

After that fever, her left leg developed slowly and was atrophied. Her legs developed unevenly, making it very difficult for her to walk, often falling down. Her father went to cut down a rosewood tree and made her a small crutch to keep her balance. A normal child over 1 year old could walk, but she was 5 years old and just taking her first steps. Her father accompanied her through those memorable childhood days...

Her mother passed away when she was 7 years old, her father was always a strong support for his daughter. Every day, he took her to school, and whenever his legs were too tired, he would carry her on his broad back. Her way to school seemed much shorter when her father was with her…

When people started to notice her, she felt a bit self-conscious and inferior because she was not as perfect as other girls. Her father was always there to encourage her that people loved her for her virtuous nature and that appearance was not important. She lived her beautiful youth with her father's encouragement. Then she fell in love with a boy in the upper village. That man loved and pampered her. When she told her family that she was pregnant, while the blue bird happily perched on her shoulder, she was only happy and her eyes were smiling, not knowing that her father was holding back a sigh. And what her father tried to hold back from saying became true. Her lover's family brought betel and areca nuts to propose, but after meeting and knowing that she was a disabled girl, they turned their backs.

At that time, she was 20 years old. Her love was betrayed, more than once she intended to give up, but her father tried his best to save her. For the first time in her life, she saw her father cry, tears like water dripping from an old cliff, the hardship etched on his face because of his helplessness. She was determined to let go of her grief, she had to stand up and walk on her own two feet even though those feet were not healthy. She could not let her loved ones, especially her father, suffer any longer.

Her father took her children away from the village to forget their sorrows soon… After going through the storms of life, she has now opened her own small tailor shop, going back and forth morning and night. She still lives with her father and her young child. Life is stable, many times her father urged her to find happiness, but she is like a bird afraid of a curved branch, always procrastinating.

When March comes, everyone shows their love and affection to their grandmother and mother for their contributions and sacrifices to the family. Having lost her mother at a young age, all her feelings are for her father, whose sacrifices for her children are certainly no less than those of other mothers. When March comes, she feels overwhelmed with emotions about her hard-working father who has been a single father raising his children for all those years.

March comes with love
There are still so many words left unsaid
The lines sent to the child written in haste
Thank you, ocean of my life.

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