Rose cried as she spoke, "I don't know what happened. After the accident, I woke up as Rose Loyle!”
George was startled for some time...
"This is absurd. My daughter Angeline died in that accident. I buried her at Mountain's Fork Cemetery, yet you're telling me right now that you're my daughter... appearing in front of me inside another body..."
Although it was unbelievably crazy, George still could not completely exclude the possibility of Angeline being inside Rose's body.
He remembered the time when he first met Ange Lin who had played the 'where is the middle finger’ game. He remembered the scene where Angeline and Rose held their hands tightly at the accident site.
He had no choice but to believe that it was something fate had arranged.
"Rose, prove it to me that you're my daughter Angeline." He looked at Rose who was standing straight with a determined expression. She was exactly like his daughter Angeline.
Rose nodded.
She placed her hands behind her and swung her head around as she recited a poem, "Father, you gave life to
me. Mother, you nurtured me. My parents, you comfort me, feed me, help me, guide me, take care of me, watch over me, carry me through places. I must repay this favor but calamities cannot be predicted!”
George observed the way she recited the poem and recalled how Angeline had used to act when she recited poems as a child.
Just like Rose, she would swing her head around as she innocently recited her poems. As for George, he felt that the poem carried a negative meaning and had always forbidden her from reciting it.
The moment she was done reciting the poem, her face was covered in tears.
She then knelt to the space opposite where she had been standing earlier and imitated George's stern voice, "Angel, there are plenty of classical poems that are beautiful and famous. Why must you choose such a poem? This poem carries a negative implication. Do not recite it anymore."
She managed to perfectly imitate how George looked and sounded.
George's face was now covered in tears as well.
He reached out his hand to help Rose up. "Angel!”
"Dad!” Rose curled into his embrace and her tears drenched his clothes.
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