Old Man Sees Homeless Lady and Recognizes Nurse Who Stayed by His Bedside for 27 Months Years Ago — Story of the Day
An old war veteran heading towards a park ran into a homeless old lady begging passers-by for food. He then recognized the mole on her upper lip and clenched her shoulder.
Kevin Adams, a 74-year-old Vietnam war veteran, was on his way to the park to spend some time in silence when he ran into an old lady begging strangers for food. “P-Pat-Patricia Watson, is that you?” he gasped, having recognized her voice and the mole on her upper lip.
The two stared at each other in silence as if they were frozen in time in search of a lost memory. Nothing stopped them from uniting again on that scorching afternoon of March.
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Moments later, young cyclists gave way to the two old people heading towards the park. Kevin and Patricia sat there, and that’s when she looked at him in the eye and said, “Oh my God, Kev! It’s been 53 years….”
They reminisced about how they were woven together in the fabric of fate, in a journey that ended before it started. “Those eyes of yours, they still flaunt the innocence I had seen five decades ago,” Kevin said.
The situation 53 years ago was nothing short of anyone’s worst nightmare. Bombs dropped everywhere, shattering the hopes of many. And 21-year-old soldier Kevin Adams was one among those severely injured in the devastating Vietnam war.
“This way, bring him here…quick,” shouted a young Patricia Watson, a registered nurse in the hospital he was admitted. Kevin could hear the nurse’s sweet voice as he fell unconscious, even with people wailing around.
“I don’t think he’ll make it. He’s injured his right leg and spine. If there’s only one thing that we could try, it’s hope,” a doctor told Patricia, who was assigned to work in Kevin’s ward.
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She peeped through the glass and saw a motionless Kevin in life support. “Yes, let’s keep him in our prayers,” she said as she entered the room to take a closer look.
Patricia developed a weird sense of closeness with Kevin with every passing day. She barely knew him other than he was a soldier. She’d be in his ward earlier than her schedule and looked for any progress in his health.
But to her dismay, he never awakened from his coma. Meanwhile, the doctor came to her with another piece of shocking news.
“It’s been five months, and I don’t...