My mother told, she had three months to live
stopped by a department store on the way
home from the hospital.
I learned about it much later.
She never told me what she bought.
"Did you buy something?"
It's a secret."
That was all.
Two months later , my mother was hospitalize.
While tidying up the room, I found a box in the back of the closet.
I opened it.
It was beautiful wrapped
My name was written on it .
"Do not open until your birthday."
My birthday was four months away.
My mother's remaining time was three months.
so that I could open it right on the birthday after she was gone.
That must have been why she bought it.