Review: A sad tale with a surprise ending
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2011
This is a sad tale with a surprise ending. Marge Harper, mother of a 22 year old son, reluctantly agreed to host a Special Olympics boy of 18, Alan Miller. Marge was crippled from arthritis and confined to a wheelchair. She began to worry about her decision to host Alan. She felt very depressed. What did she know about the needs and joys of an 18 year old? She began to cry to her son, but he encouraged her, as did her friend, her next door neighbor Mary. The oath of the Special Olympics, she thought, is "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." "I am not like that at all," she worried.Her son and her neighbor took her to the Olympics. She saw Alan Miller who had difficulty walking, and waved at him. He looked at her, but did not respond. He looked away. Marge was certain that once he saw who she was, because he certainly didn't know she was his host until she waived, and saw her in a wheelchair, he was sorry he would be with her for the weekend. Was she right? Why didn't Alan respond? What kind of weekend would the two of them have?