The Rosebush

Since Elisa had moved to the new house she always had the same dream at night, an old woman took her hand and took her to the garden pointing to a small corner of that huge land, the old woman smiled at her but she did not understand what she wanted to tell her.

One day, while cleaning the basement, Elisa found in a chest of an old piece of furniture what appeared to be a diary. When she opened it, there was a picture of a woman who, although younger, she recognized as the old lady she saw in her dreams.

In the diary the woman wrote how happy she was in that home with her beloved husband and that for their wedding anniversary he had planted a rose in the garden as a gift to her. When the war began her husband enlisted and died in battle, the rose bush was the most precious thing to her and a memory of her love. Elisa understood what the woman in her dreams wanted to say and planted a beautiful rosebush in her garden, never again having that dream.