The very BEST and MOST SPECIAL gift i have ever received

     This is my entry into Judith's contest "the very best
      and most special gift I have ever received".  The link
      to the contest is here.

       I have read some of the other entries and feel that
       mine is small in comparison but what the heck.

       The very BEST and MOST SPECIAL gift I have
       ever received:

       Daisies are my very favorite flower.  I had a boy-
       friend once tell me that he was glad I loved daisies
        because they were so much cheaper than roses.
        Funny thing, I don't remember him ever giving me
        any kind of flower.........

        Back to the story......

         When I was 13 to 15 or so I was so in love with
         the boy next door.    And he liked me too.  We
         went to our very first school dance together.
         We even walked to school together most mornings.
         
          You can imange imagine how crushed we both were
          when his parents announced they were moving to
          another county.  
 
           But we did keep in touch for a while.  He sent me a
           couple of letters (which I still have) and we talked
          on the phone some.  Whenever his mom was coming
          to town she would drop him off for a visit.

          B was always bringing me small little gifts.  I still 
          have 2 of them.  One is this little rock that says
          "I love you" on it.  The other I have looks nothing
           like it did the day he gave it to me, but means
           just as much.  It is my very best and most special
           present.

          One day in the dead of winter B shows up at my
          house with a daisy.  Just one.  And not the hot house
          kind you would find in stores in the winter.  But a
          daisy that looked like he had picked it out of the
          field beside where he was living at the time.
         
           I asked him a million times where he got a wild
            daisy in the winter and he never would tell me. 

           It was the first flower a boy had ever given me. 
          And at the age of 15 years old this boy knew my
           favorite flower and got it for me.

            Why is a lowly daisy my favorite gift of all time?
             Maybe because of who gave it to me?  No, well,
            maybe.  But I think the fact that he knew what
            I loved and went out of his way to get it for me
            was the most special thing anyone has ever done
            for me.

            So, Judith that is my entry into your contest.  Thank
            you for reminding me of this story.  Even if I don't
            win it is still a great memory to me.

            Kathy