Everything was fated. What Sabrina said was especially appropriate.
Mila smiled in relief. "That's right."
Sabrina hugged Yvonne and was extremely emotional. "I finally understood why you had to suffer like that, Yvonne. Everything, all of it, was for the sake of your condition. Thank heavens! Everything will be fine in the future. Everything will get better in the future. I will acknowledge you as Yvonne, and so will your parents and Marcus. In the future, you'll still be that sweet little princess."
Mila hugged Sabrina and cried like a child. "Sabrina, you've finally acknowledged me... I feel I'm already very, very lucky. I'm already very lucky that you're willing to acknowledge me."
Sabrina raised her hand and poked Mila's head. "You're not just very lucky. You're the luckiest silly girl in the whole wide world! Think about it. You've got a condition that only occurred in one out of a million and even maybe ten million people, and you're cured. Say, how lucky you are! We’re not the only ones doting on you. You're simply God's favorite. Yvonne, listen to me. None of the setbacks you've encountered mattered. How could someone not encounter setbacks in life? Everyone had to experience all sorts of things in life to not live in vain. Do you agree?"
Mila nodded her head aggressively. "Mm-hmm!"
Both of them hugged each other and they laughed after crying and cried after laughing.
It was after a while that Sabrina thought of something. "Yvonne, you should have been living quite a good life if you had the pair of middle-aged professors helping you. Why did you return?"
Mila smiled miserably. "Sabrina, you said it just now as well. How could someone not encounter setbacks in life? Actually, what I want to say is that everything in life is simply unpredictable. You feel that I've suffered a lot of grievances, but no matter what, I’m still alive. However, God truly must have been blind to let that pair of middle-aged professors experience such a thing. How great of a couple they were. They were so nice to me. They were cultured and knowledgeable. They were much younger than my parents and were only around ten years older than me, but they truly were very much like my parents. I was actually quite satisfied to live with them with my children. However, that day came so suddenly and there were no warning signs at all. The couple was walking on the street, and just like that, they were fatally shot without any reason at all by the kind of criminal who was on the run."
Sabrina was simply stunned when she heard that.
She covered her mouth with her hand." Gosh..."
Mila sighed. "That’s right. Life is unpredictable. I, on the other hand, was so saddened and helpless that I couldn’t even cry. They...they were my family abroad. I’ve already lost everything in my country, and I've lost them abroad. At that time, if I didn't have two starving children with me, I really wanted to die. However, once I thought of my children, I could only force myself to keep on living." "What did you do then after you've lost your livelihood?" Sabrina asked again.
Mila raised her gaze and looked into the distance. There was a kind of calmness and determination in her smile. "Sabrina, I only admired you in the past. I felt that you had had it rough, but you had also pulled through it. Every time I thought of how much you've suffered, I simply wondered, how did you pull through? Later, when it was my turn to suffer, every time I couldn't hold on anymore, I would think of you.
Once I thought of you, I would have the strength to continue down the path."
Mila glanced at Sabrina. "You might not have expected it, but after that middle-aged couple died, I started my long journey to return home. I did not have money on me, so I kept working odd jobs along the way.
Fortunately, I had a good foundation in Spanish, so I was able to communicate with others abroad. I kept begging for food, walking, and working for others along the way. It took me three months on foot to get to the northwestern region of our country."
"The northwestern region? How did you survive in that desolate place?" Sabrina asked with concern.
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