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 My mother was living with only one eye, I hated her for that, she was embarrassing me, and she looked disgusting. She was working as a chef at the school which I was in, to be able to pay for my tuition, and help me to complete my studies.

 I didn't want anyone to know that she was my mom. One day my mom went up to my class to check on me and make sure that I'm doing well, I felt embarrassed and ashamed, how she did this to me, I ignored her and l gave her a look full of hatred . The next day, one of the students met me and asked me "is your mother has only one eye?" Awww…

 At this moment, I wanted to bury myself and that my mother should be dead and disappear from my life. The next day I faced my mother!!! "You made me a subject of humiliation , why you do not die?" But she didn't answer and remained silent, I wasn't hesitant in what I said, I didn't think about the meaning of my words because I was so angry, I ignored her feelings and I wanted to leave the place.

 I studied hard and got a scholarship in Singapore; I traveled and lived there. Then I got married and bought a house, and Then my kids were born, I was very happy and comfortable in my life, one day my mother came to see me and the boys, who didn't see them before.

 When my children saw my mother, they laughed, and some of them are afraid of her, I screamed at her “go out immediately, how you dare to come to my children and scare them?" She replied calmly "sorry I think that I made a mistake in the address", she left and vanished away.

 One day I received a letter from my old school, to come to attend a reunion meeting with my mother, I lied to my wife and told her that I'd go on a business trip! I traveled and went to attend the school meeting. My mother didn't attend. After the meeting I went to my old house which we were living in, just out of curiosity. The neighbors told me that my mother died, I didn't shed a single tear and I didn't affect emotionally , they handed me an envelope, inside of it a letter from my mother, it was written in it: "My beloved Son, I have always loved you, thought of you so much, and wished that you lived with me, so I can see you and my grandchildren playing in front of me because I'm alone in the house, and I almost choked". I wanted to have someone take care of me and help me when I become old.

 I am sorry that I came and scared your children, I was very happy when I knew that you will come to the meeting, so I can look at you from afar, but I couldn't leave my bed because I was sick.

 My beloved son, I have an internal secret didn't tell it to anyone except you, after your father died in a car accident, you're wounded by and lost your right eye, I felt sorry for you, I could not imagine how my son will live with one eye, and children may make fun of him and his scary look, so I gave you my eye.

 I did the impossible and collected the money so I could pay for the surgery, thankfully I was very happy because my son will see the world with my own eye, even after I came and your children were afraid of me, I thought that I can see them by my own lost eye.

I love you forever.