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True Love Alters Not This is the story of a loving couple. For ten years after their marriage they had no child. A son was born to them in the eleventh year. Both husband and wife were overjoyed with the presence of the little one, and took good care to protect him from injury and illness.
One morning two years later, as the man was leaving home for work, he suddenly remembered that he had left a bottle of a dangerous drug on the floor of his room. But, since he was in hurry, he asked his wife to put it away. Now it so happened that the wife, busy with chores in the kitchen, delayed going to the room. When she finally went there, she saw the two-year-old toddler was having severe convulsion with foam at the mouth. The empty bottle lay by his side.
She immediately rushed the child to a hospital, but he died soon after. The sorrow of losing her only child was now mixed with fear as she awaited her husband's arrival.
The man, when he entered the ward, was most distressed and did not speak a word to his wife. However, after saying a silent heartfelt prayer at his son's bedside, he came and stood near his wife, looked at her with love and compassion, and said, "Blaming ourselves for what has happened is of little use, for it will not bring back
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