My Dear Baby, If You Can Survive, Please Remember Mom Loves You.
It was the third day after the quake already.
The rescue workers were still looking for survivors. They
knew with each minute passing by, the chance to find someone alive
gets slimmer. They were overworked. Since the quake, many of them
had been working constantly, without having any good sleep. The
roads to these mountainous towns and villages were destroyed by the
quake-induced mudslides. They did not have machinery to work with.
All they had were shovels and their bare hands.
But they were still looking for survivors.
"Come here, come here! There is a body! " Shouted a rescue
worker. His fellow workers rushed to the spot. Under a big chunk of
roof was a woman. She was lying with a strange pose - she kneeled
on the ground with her upper body stretch forward. Her head was on
the ground as well. As if she was praying for her survival.
The nurse in the rescue team struggled to reach her through
the debris. It was difficult. There was no space. The woman was not
responsive to any call. However, just to make sure, the nurse still
tried to test her breath, to see if she was still breathing.
Not really. She was breathless, and her body was cold. She
was dead. Praying or not, it did not help. The team moved on. There
were other people buried. They could not afford to spend time in
retrieving a dead body.
When the team reached the next collapsed building, the
captain suddenly ran back to the woman, as if he realized
something. When he reached the spot, he lay down, put his head next
to the roof, and stretched his arm to touch the space under her
abdomen. Once, twice. His forehead was locked, just like he was
solving a mystery.
"There is a baby! And he is alive!!!" He cried out to his
team members.
It was a newly-born. He was neatly wrapped in a red blanket
decorated by yellow flowers. Miraculously, he did not even have a
scratch in his body. When he was taken out from the rubble, he was
sleeping, peacefully sleeping.
The nurse took the baby from the rescue worker and started
doing routine exams. When she unwrapped the blanket, she found a
cell phone tucked between the baby and his diaper. It had a text
message written on the screen, read
" My dear baby, if you can survive, please remember mom loves
you."
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