Now as her one hundredth birthday approached, her grand and great-grandchildren asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
“I just want verbs,” she grinned. “Let me have many more verbs.”
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She was born in 1922. For ninety-nine years she’d laughed and cried, giggled and sighed, walked and run, danced and played. She’d tasted and savoured, smiled and frowned, loved and lost and then loved again. She’d begun and begat, feared and rejoiced. Sometimes she’d talked, sometimes she’d listened, she’d created and torn down, she’d believed, she’d doubted, she’d stayed, she’d gone.
Now as her one hundredth birthday approached, her grand and great-grandchildren asked her what she wanted for her birthday. “I just want verbs,” she grinned. “Let me have many more verbs.”
Doug
23/9/2022 05:30:11 pm
Well done Sandra. Apparently action words contributed to her long life. Good job.
Peggy Gerber
23/9/2022 08:26:12 pm
What a lovely, heartwarming story.
Alyce
23/9/2022 09:19:22 pm
I agree with Peggy. This is lovely, Sandra.
Michael Talledes
24/9/2022 01:46:03 am
I loved this Sandra. If we can all be so lucky and blessed to ask for more verbs in you 90’s! :)
Sue Clayton
24/9/2022 01:49:06 am
Brilliant, Sandra. Long live verbs. What would would writers' lives be without them.
Dee Lorraine
24/9/2022 03:51:12 am
A wonderful story, Sandra. More verbs to her and to you.
Sivan Pillai
24/9/2022 04:49:01 am
She had lived her life the way she wanted. Now give her what she wants. Lovely story, Sandra.
Kim Favors
24/9/2022 07:35:45 pm
Great story! Thank you.
Tom Baldwin
25/9/2022 12:34:08 am
Lovely story! A great way to look at life.
Marjan Sierhuis
25/9/2022 08:03:37 pm
A delightful little story, Sandra.
Cindy Patrick
25/9/2022 11:24:03 pm
Verbs, not nouns. Lovely outlook, Sandra!
Jenny Logan
27/9/2022 12:42:24 pm
Oh, Sandra, your story is so clever. Comments are closed.
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