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高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Special Delivery 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选Special Delivery 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 心愿达成 四星 731 【文章梗概】我和先生一直想要一个孩子，但始终不能如愿。暂时放下包袱，却偶遇了认识爷爷的人，聊到爷爷的神奇魔力，定会保佑我达成心愿的。不久，就接到通知到领养孩子的医院，更加巧合的是我们预先给孩子起的名字竟然和接生医生的名字一模一样。 I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny. ~Ann Brashares My husband and I had been trying to start a family for several years with no luck. It was a difficult time of doctors’ appointments, hormone drugs and injections, acupuncture, waiting, fighting back tears at friends’ baby showers, and a growing sense of hopelessness. We spent far too much time asking the universe and ourselves, “Why?” Around that same time, my husband visited with a woman at the school where he was being trained in massage therapy. She was known as a highly spiritual person. My husband mentioned our pregnancy difficulties and she smiled reassuringly and told him that she felt certain we would have a baby. But not soon. When he asked her to explain, she told him she was getting a strong message from my husband’s grandfather, whom we all called Grandpa Mac. He had passed away a few years earlier, and we missed him dearly. She said that quite possibly Grandpa Mac was holding the spirit of a child for us in heaven, and that he would send us this baby’s spirit when he felt we were ready. Mostly because we needed to laugh so we wouldn’t cry in those days, we joked on and off about this revelation. First of all, we weren’t sure we believed in this sort of thing. A Greater Power — maybe. But anything else was a stretch. Secondly, Grandpa Mac had been an all-out jokester. He was the kind of man who would give you an empty box to open, watch for your disappointment, and then lead you outside to see the new car he’d bought you. Frankly, it would have been just like him to tease us unmercifully — to know that we wanted something so badly and to say, winking, that he was waiting for the right moment to give it to us. We even laughed (a little