Woman Walks past Beggar with a Baby Every Day, Recognizes the Face of Her Late Child — Story of the Day
Margaret is stunned when she sees a beggar woman on the street with a baby who looks just like her deceased child.
For a long time after her husband and her daughter died, Margaret Union imagined she saw them everywhere. She thought she was going mad when she found herself chasing through the supermarket after a man with a toddler in his arms, sure it was Frank and Didi.
But the man turned around and it wasn’t Frank, and she apologized and walked away on trembling legs. Her lost family haunted her awake and asleep, until one day she saw a woman on the street with her daughter in her arms.
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Ironically, her horror had started on Mother’s Day. Frank and Didi had sneaked out of the house early to buy her flowers for Mother’s Day, but a truck’s brakes had failed at an intersection, and in an instant, her beloved family was gone.
Margaret had started going to therapy and things had gotten better until the day she saw the woman begging on the street, with a baby, the same age Didi had been when she died sprawled across her knees.
The woman was around Margaret’s age but she was worn down and marked by the hard life on the streets. Margaret felt a wave of pity engulf her. She couldn’t imagine what it would be like, living with a tiny child on the streets.
She came closer and fumbled in her purse, looking for some money to drop in the woman’s bowl, and then the child turn her head towards her. Margaret gasped! High on the little girl’s cheekbone was a heart-shaped mole — just like Didi’s!
Margaret felt as if a giant fist had punched her in the stomach. She must be imagining it, hallucinating again. She closed her eyes tightly, then took a deep calming breath just as her therapist had taught her, then she opened her eyes again and looked at the child.
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The baby had the birthmark, it wasn’t her imagination! Margaret approached the woman. “Hello,” she said in a gentle voice. “You look hungry!” The woman raised her face and nodded.
“I’m very hungry,” she whispered, “But I need food for my baby.”
“If you’ll let me help you,” Margaret said, “you’ll both have more than enough to eat, and a safe place to sleep tonight.”
The woman looked a little frightened. “You won’t...