There is a little girl who has been at the hospital for a week. she is not a patient. She is 17 and has a 1 year old boy. She is small and lovely with the biggest smile. She does not speak English or French but engages Barb from day 1. She learns she is here with her sister who is waiting to have twins...
She asks for food, she and the baby are hungry, we listen to her story we give her money. we come back with clothes and more food the next day. Every day she waits for us. She has stolen Barbs heart.....mine too. Barb wants to help her she talks at length to anyone and everyone. The girl has only finished 2nd grade, her mom and dad are dead. She lives with her sister whose husband is "Foolish"(mentally ill) and does not want her there. Barb talks to the brothers and to John Louis who is the director of the orphanage...what can she do? Can she help this girl go to school can she somehow fund her education? (Only $300 a year) John Louis says he will go to the hospital and talk with her and help her...Barb is ecstatic.....
The sister delivers twins...the babies are healthy and beautiful...we bring more clothes....the sister says they have no way to go home....about an hour away....We will give her money to get them home as the husband is not competent.
The next day we come to the hospital we see the ambulance with the patient and her sister and babies...they motion us over John Louis did not come.....What can we do, we watch the ambulance leave...Barb is heartbroken
That night John Louis comes to the house we are at...he was not able to get to the hospital...however he assures us he will find the girl..he has her name and her village
John Louis is a good man..but there are so many people with so many needs....what about this one little girl with the beautiful smile...
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