We all laughed, then I gave her a kiss too, my little one! How much I loved her.
Mom took that little pile of ribbons and looked at it carefully:
“Carmen! When did you make these? Darling, they’re lovely! I didn’t think you knew how to make stuff like this.”
“Mom!” Giving her a kiss, she said, “Don’t you remember the afternoons we’ve spent sitting in the summer when everyone was napping? You had such patience, because the moment I pricked myself once, I didn’t want to continue, and you taught me how to embroider.”
“Yes darling, I still have the first handkerchief you made for me,” said my mother nostalgically.
“Really? But that was many years ago now, how can you still hold onto it?”
“Because of that, because it was the first, and that will always be the case, no matter how many you
