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"Can I see my baby?" asked the
happy new mother. Unluckily, she found her baby had been1without
ears when it was in her arms.
Time proved that the baby's2was
perfect. He got on well with his classmates. But one day, he rushed home and
said to his mother3tears in his eyes, "A boy, a big
boy4me a freak(怪胎)."
As the boy5, he
developed a talent for art and music.
The boy's father had a meeting with the family doctor. "Could
anything6done?" He asked the doctor.
"I believe I could graft(移植) a pair of outer ears7you could get them,"
the doctor said.
However, two years8,
nobody wanted to offer the young man ears. Then one day the father said, "Son,9will
offer his ears to you. But it's a secret. The operation was a great10.
Time kept the secret, but the day did come. The
young man stood with his father11his mother's body. Slowly, the father held
out a hand and raised the thick, brown hair.12, the son found his mother had no outer
ears.
"Mother said she was glad that she13let her long hair cut," the father
said gently," and nobody ever thought Mother14beautiful, did they?"
Real15lies not in what is done and known, but in
what is done but not known.
