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Chapter 8: Miracle

So I read on, to finish what I had started. The words were more compelling this time. In them lay a strange force, a mysterious attraction…

“When I was outcast by her father’s disgust, I have constantly questioned myself, of the wrongs I could have done, of the mischief I had unwittingly committed. What troubled me the most was the extinguished joy on his face upon seeing the necklace bearing the picture of my mother. It, thus, set me off in the vain pursuit of any possible link between them two. Then the truth descended upon me from the sky of madness, thundering in my ears, stirring in my eyes and burning in my heart: I have fallen in love with my sister. I now understand that he threw me away, shouting the poverty to which my life was bound, only to mask this painful reality. My sister, heartbroken, eventually succumbed to illness, not knowing the curse our love had borne. I pleaded to donate my heart to save her, but he turned down the offer each time. I wandered, my mind emptied, my will shattered. Your brother has tried to salvage the situation, but to no avail. It’s laughable, isn’t? What could he possibly do? And you came, bringing the redemption that your elders had failed to deliver: my death would end this once and for all. My heart would then be placed in her chest, and together we will breathe as one, not as lovers, but real family.

I thank you for all you have done. Please remember that guilt is not your reward, but satisfaction that you have helped a human soul find its rightful place.

I wish you well, for your future will be beautiful.

God bless you.

God bless us all.”

I stood still for a while, did not know what to feel, what to think any more…

Just then, from the surgery ward exploded the roar of ecstasy: “Her heart, her heart is alive again!”



THE END