温馨夜读 PART2 06 He Made Me An Angel 他让我成为天使（在线收听）

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[00:01.08]He Made Me An Angel 他让我成为天使

[00:08.84]When I was in seventh grade, 

[00:10.88]I was a candy striper at a local hospital in my town.

[00:15.30]I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer.

[00:19.79]Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie.

[00:23.84]He never had any visitors, 

[00:26.35]and nobody seemed to care about his condition.

[00:29.09]I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, 

[00:33.79]helping with anything that needed to be done.

[00:35.98]He became a close friend of mine, 

[00:38.92]even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand.

[00:42.76]Mr. Gillespie was in a coma.

[00:45.82]I left for a week to vacation with my parents, 

[00:50.15]and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone.

[00:52.83]I didn’t have the nerve to ask any of the nurses where he was, 

[00:58.01]for fear they might tell me he had died.

[01:00.59]So with many questions unanswered, 

[01:04.57]I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.

[01:08.15]Several years later, when I was a junior in high school, 

[01:12.32]I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face.

[01:15.47]When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears.

[01:19.74]He was alive! 

[01:21.51]I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie,

[01:24.99]and if he had been in a coma about five years ago.

[01:27.84]With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes.

[01:32.21]I explained how I knew him, 

[01:35.04]and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital.

[01:38.56]His eyes welled up with tears, 

[01:41.55]and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.

[01:44.14]He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose,

[01:48.74]he could hear me talking to him 

[01:50.78]and could feel me holding his hand the whole time.

[01:53.44]He thought it was an angel, not a person, who was there with him.

[01:57.70]Mr. Gillespie firmly believed 

[02:00.40]that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.

[02:03.28]Then he told me about his life 

[02:06.31]and what happened to him to put him in the coma.

[02:08.31]We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug, 

[02:12.10]said our good-byes and went our separate ways.

[02:15.10]Although I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day.

[02:20.35]I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

[02:24.40]More important, he has made a tremendous difference in my life.

[02:28.23]I will never forget him and what he did for me: he made me an angel.