美文欣赏：Never Alone
But as I sat there in my quiet house, eating my dinner, the phone started ringing. First, a woman from our church called； she identified herself as Sue and offered to give me rides back and forth to the hospital. She even insisted on driving three hours each way to pick up Kate at college and bring her home for the weekend. Then someone else called and said she‘d stop by with a meal. I didn’t even know these people！ Finally, just before I went to bed, the phone rang again. It was my mom.
“I was trying to arrange to take a bus tomorrow,” she said. “But my friend said, ‘No way！’ She‘s going to drive me there right now. We’ll get in about 2 am.”
“She‘ll drive all that way in the middle of the night？” I asked, unbelieving.
“Yup. I‘ll see you soon. Just hang in there.”
I did, thanks to the support of Lisa, Sue, and others I barely knew. Mike recovered, came home, and gradually grew stronger. And I was stronger, too. With good, caring people everywhere, ready to lend a hand, I am never really alone.