I once met a friend named Maria. She told me a story of her own, which was almost unbelievable:

This happened when she had to undergo a knee surgery after falling down on the ice and breaking her left knee. Waking up in the hospital, she noticed a nurse come into her room with quite a light-hearted smile, crooning a popular melody. "Good afternoon, Mrs. Green.", she greeted. Maria found awkward and thought to herself: "Why did she call me Mrs. Green?" "But I'm not Mrs. Green," Maria replied.

"Yes, you are, my ma'am. You've just had a stomach option and need to take some medicine now, as the chart at the bedside reads, ok?"

"Stomach?" Maria felt her belly. Surprisingly she found that her belly was not firm any more, but soft and floppy, with some stitches on it. She then reached to her cheek; instead of a young woman's tender skin, there she touched an old lady's face, wrinkled and coarse. Maria shouted to the nurse, "I'm not Mrs. Green. This is..., is not me!"

Tears began rolling down from her eyes. Maria buried her unfamiliar face into her unfamiliar hands, confusing, panicking, and not knowing what to do. At this moment her parents passed through her room, and Maria called them loudly, "Dad, Mom, here, I am Maria!" Maria's parents looked at each other, murmuring a while, and they ran quickly away right in front of her, thinking there's anoter psychie in the hospital. Maria felt so disappointed and helpless. "How come should it happen?" "How could I ever live later in the future?"

The door opened, and an old man with a mop came in, apparently a janitor. His eyes were mild, but his sight was piercing. The wrinkles on his face seemed to tell people that he had experienced everything in this world. There would be no more interesting to him on this planet.

"Should I tell him about this?", Maris said to herself, "Why not? I've got nothing to lose anyway." And she told him what happened to her and the current situation she was suffering.

"Well, it once happened in this hospital before when I was a young boy," the old man recalled, looking kindly at Maria, "Then an old man came to me and handed me a little bottle with some white powder in it." He urged me to keep it just in case." The old man then took out the little bottle, looking at Maria into her eyes, saying, "Now, I think here it comes." Maria took some powder out and drank it with a glass of warm water. Soon she felt sleepy and went into a deep, long sleep.

There she woke up again, only this time she was surrounded by her dear mom and dad. Maria was so happy, and she gave them a big hug and a big kiss. She told them she loved them so much and was so happy to be here again. Though her parents didn't know what was going on, they still were quite relaxed and happy too. Maria began to wonder if it was nothing but a strange dream.

The door opened, and a jenitor with a mop came in. It was the old man! The old man winked at Maria and gestured her to have a good rest, which seemed to say, "Don't worry, my dear. Everything would be just fine..."

 



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