Miss Mary

His words still ring in my ears and I still remember just what he said. "Miss Mary, you have a gift of helping people and you need to follow that calling."  I smiled and started to walk away when he gave me the little box.  He told me that it was just a little gift to help me began a new chapter in my life.  I opened the box and what I found inside made me almost cry.  Tucked inside the box wrapped up in tissue paper was a shiny key, the key to Doc. Wilson's Blue Model A automobile.   As he walked away, he told me that since I would be traveling from home to school, I would need a car.  My dreams were about to come true.  

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