温馨夜读 PART3 05 Date With Mamma 我与妈妈有个约会（在线收听）

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[00:00.64]Date With Mamma 我与妈妈有个约会

[00:05.89]After 21 years of marriage, 

[00:08.30]I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love.

[00:12.13]I started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife’s idea.

[00:18.04]“I know that you love her,”she said one day, taking me by surprise.

[00:23.83]“But I love YOU,” I protested.“I know, but you also love her,”she said.

[00:29.85] The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my mother,

[00:34.23]but the demands of my work and my three children 

[00:37.48]had made it possible to visit her only occasionally.

[00:40.90]That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie.

[00:45.61]“I thought that it would be pleasant to pass some time with you,”I said.

[00:49.87]“Just the two of us,”he thought about it for a moment,

[00:53.50]then said,“I would like that very much.”

[00:56.55]That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous.

[01:02.67]When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, 

[01:06.57]seemed to be nervous about our date.

[01:08.59]She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress 

[01:12.26]that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary.

[01:15.25]She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel’s.

[01:19.85]We went to a very nice and cozy restaurant. 

[01:23.76]After we sat down, I had to read the menu.

[01:26.85]A nostalgic smile was on her lips.

[01:30.38]“It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,”she said.

[01:35.60]“Then it’s time that you relax and let me return the favor,” I responded.

[01:40.42]During the dinner we had an agreeable conversation—nothing extraordinary—

[01:46.33]but catching up on recent events of each other’s life.

[01:50.05]We talked so much that we missed the movie.

[01:52.89]As we arrived at her house later, she said,

[01:56.49]“I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.”I agreed.

[02:01.86]A few days later my mother died of a massive heart attack.

[02:06.46]It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her.

[02:10.84]At that moment I understood the importance of saying in time “I LOVE YOU”

[02:16.52]and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve.

[02:19.70]Nothing in life is more important than your family.

[02:22.98]Give them the time they deserve, 

[02:25.24]because these things cannot be put off till “some other time”.