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Before leaving the Hogar, Madre Ivonne requested that we write down our most memorable moment for her. Below you can read my account of the moment that touched me most.
It seems that in any relationship two people can be with each other for years when all of a sudden they see each other in a different light. All the past seems stale in comparison with this one brilliant moment of love in which they see each other in all their inner beauty. Sometimes people can go years before they see each other in this light, but at the Hogar it has been my blessing to have so many moments of this love. I have seen how inexpressibly beautiful these children are. The most touching of all was when I was being mobbed by five or six of the cutest youngsters, each one of them beaming and begging for attention. Then, with all of them heaping on me as I sat in the grass, one hand popped in front of my face. I looked and saw Kevin. He has a healed cleft lip, some silver false teeth, and a hard time speaking. You might not guess how special he is. All the other kids desperately wanted me to devote my attention only to them, but Kevin just wanted to give me something. I looked in his hand and saw that he had found a little bug which he wanted to share with me. I held it for a little and gave it back. That was enough to make Kevin smile so big that I could see his little silver teeth. He just wanted to share with me a treasure he had found, and the simplicity of his love melted my heart.
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