Blurb My Brain:
There once was a young woman. She was 20 years old. She loved her friends, and her family, but she really loved her arm. She realized this arm allowed her to do many great things. It allowed her to complete her homework, drink with her friends, hold her hair back when puking, massage her sore shoulders, wiped away her tears, and even drove her around.
She was told one day, that her arm would one day fall off. The exact date wasn't known, but one day it would in fact fall off. No one knew for sure if the arm could be reattached and no one knew when they would know.
The day came and the woman's arm fell off. Naturally, she was distraught. She went into work, and attempted to carry on her life, although everyone could see the change in her personality. She cried occasionally, did research on how she could continue on her with her life without her arm, and even looked into ways she could reunite herself with her arm on her own terms. Nothing was available, and she was told just to wait.
One day, she found out where her arm would be. She met with her arm, and suddenly found out that her arm could be reattached permanently in a couple months.
The woman just had to leave for several more weeks, preparing for the attachment.
Eventually the woman would come to terms with the fact she were missing her arm. But, she never once forgot how great it was to have that arm. To help her work out, to get her to work, to help her in any way any arm would help someone.
People would tell her, "you've been without your arm for a while now. Aren't you used to it? Haven't you learned how to live without your arm?" And the woman would keep to herself. These people with arms couldn't possibly know what it was like to be without their arms. An arm to sleep on, at night, one to help her mail things, to drive around with.
But instead, she just focused on the fact they never could know. And how silly they seemed when they complained about being in a cast for a few weeks! She was a much stronger woman than the other people.
And that made her happy.
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