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She looked over her shoulder as the fire brigade tried to bring down the gnarling flames that were leaping furiously behind her. It was her home, her safety cocoon, ever since she remembered. Everything was over. She saw her world fall apart. She had nowhere to go to. So, she thought. But within hours she was surrounded by her own blood relatives, the people she was born from.
The couple who had lost their only child in the crazy crowds of a pilgrimage place years ago had recognized their daughter instantly even after the long duration of time that they were seeing her. It was their blessed destiny that they happened to see the news coverage of the devastation caused by an accidental gas leak at the orphanage on the television. Just as the camera zoomed on the rescued victims, they saw their little one with that unique birthmark that ran past her jaw. It had to be her, without doubt. No other human could have that kind of birthmark. She had grown into a beautiful young girl from the toddler that they had lost back then. The sinking hopes of having lost their baby forever, after years of running from pillar to post looking for her without yielding results, rose suddenly in the ecstatic parents as they rushed to reunite with their child.
Her innocent heart took a while to let it all sink in as she stepped into her house, her own house with her own parents. She wasn’t an orphan after all. The gas leak, the fire, the loss had all happened for a reason…probably it happened so that the life that was rightfully hers could get a chance to fall together.
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Nice! Happy endings are always good!:)
Yes Mayuri, I love happy endings too 🙂
Loved it! Keep Writing 🙂
Thanks Nancy 🙂
alls well that ends well…
True that Nisha.
I love a happy ending and I love the quote by Marilyn Monroe, there is great wisdom in that. Nice one.
Yeah, I particularly love her quotes too Suzy. Thanks 🙂
Awww such a nice happy ending and I love the image that you used.
Thank you Soumya. The picture captures the mood of autumn which again is all about falling apart so that everything would fall together for Spring to come in.
True reflection. And lovely quote from Monroe
That's a quote I relate to so well Lata.
Such a lovely story 🙂 Loved the quote too 🙂 So glad she found her family 🙂
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Thanks Swathi 🙂
Out of the ashes, emerges hope. So beautiful!
*Shailaja/Alternate Angles/A-Z*
Thanks Shailaja. I love the line you quote : Out of the ashes, emerges hope. Yes, indeed.
Yes! All that happens are for a reason. Beautiful story. 🙂
We're just a part of the larger plan god has made for us Sheethal. So I guess, we just have to trust in his reasons. Glad you like the story.
Nice story. Life can come around to a full circle…happy endings are great.
Thanks Sanch. Yeah, it takes a bit of going around the bend to reach where you're meant to be 🙂
What a lovely story and glad it ended well! 😉 Sometimes it pays to have a birthmark, especially unusual and easily seen. 😉 <3
Thank you Elly. I agree, birthmarks have quite a few advantages especially if they are unique and easily seen. Her parents couldn't have recognised her otherwise.
I love a happy ending and that was a very happy one.
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That was beautiful. And so true… sometimes good things break down, but even greater things emerge. Lovely story:-)
It's a beautiful story, Vinodini. Love the last lines:)