英語溫馨夜讀I PART4 The Day I Finally Cried 那天，我終于哭了

[00:00.54]The Day I Finally Cried 那天，我終于哭了 [00:07.98]I didn’t cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped child. [00:13.46]“Go ahead and cry,”the doctor advised kindly. [00:16.84]But I couldn’t cry then nor during the months that followed. [00:21.33]We enrolled her in our neighborhood school’s kindergarten at age seven. [00:25.71]I worried that when she was the“different”child among twenty five-year-olds, [00:31.06]it was probably the loneliest moment she had ever known. [00:34.79]However, positive things began to happen to Kristi in her school, [00:39.52]and to her schoolmates, too. [00:41.36]When boasting of their own accomplishments, [00:43.96]Kristi’s classmates always took pains to praise her as well, [00:48.03]“Kristi got all her spelling words right today.” [00:51.20]No one bothered to add that her spelling list was easier than anyone else’s. [00:56.78]During Kristi’s second year in school, she faced a very special experience. [01:02.36]The big public event of the term was a competition [01:05.97]based on a culmination of the year’s music and physical education activities. [01:11.22]Kristi was way behind in both music and motor coordination. [01:16.58]My husband and I dreaded the day as well. [01:19.65]On the day of the program, Kristi pretended to be sick. [01:23.59]Desperately I wanted to keep her home. [01:26.32]Why let Kristi fail in a gymnasium filled with parents, students and teachers? [01:32.56]What a simple solution! But I finally got her onto the school bus. [01:37.15]Just as I had forced my daughter to go to school, [01:40.20]now I forced myself to go to the program. [01:43.49]Then I knew why Kristi had been worried. [01:46.66]Her class was divided into relay teams. [01:49.73]With her limp and slow, clumsy reactions, she would surely hold up her team. [01:55.64]But as Kristi’s turn to participate neared, a change took place in her team. [02:01.11]The tallest boy in the line stepped behind Kristi [02:04.72]and placed his hands on her waist. [02:06.80]Two other boys stood a little ahead of her. [02:09.64]The moment the player in front of Kristi stepped from the sack, [02:13.14]those two boys grabbed the sack and held it open [02:16.64]while the tall boy lifted Kristi and dropped her neatly into it. [02:20.91]A girl in front of Kristi took her hand and supported her briefly [02:25.46]until Kristi gained her balance. [02:27.48]Then off she hopped, smiling and proud. [02:30.54]Amid the cheers of teachers, schoolmates and parents, [02:34.04]I crept off by myself to thank Heaven for the warm, understanding people in life [02:40.09]who make it possible for my disabled daughter to be like her fellow human beings. [02:45.34]Then I finally cried.

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